I think autopkgtest is working as expected. You asked to pin src:nftables from -proposed, autopkgtest did that, even if this causes dependency resolution issues. In the specific case you also need to add src:libnftnl to the pinned packages.
Normally when this problem happens, autopkgtest re-tries to install the test dependencies dropping the strict pinning, i.e. by testing with all -proposed. In this case this isn't happening because it is not autopkgtest installing those dependencies, but it's the test itself, so there is no "all-proposed fallback" and also the error message is a bit obscure. [Ideally test dependencies should be declared in d/t/control and installed by autopkgtest, and not by the test scripts.] In the future autopkgtest will somehow use the new apt solver3, but we are not there yet. I don't think https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088971 is related to this in any way. Does this fit your understanding of the problem? ** Changed in: autopkgtest (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2091318 Title: misconfigured pin-priority for trigger packages in systemd upstream test Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in nftables package in Ubuntu: New Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In this test for example[1], where nftables is a trigger, we see: 4476s Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have 4476s requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable 4476s distribution that some required packages have not yet been created 4476s or been moved out of Incoming. 4476s The following information may help to resolve the situation: 4476s 4476s The following packages have unmet dependencies: 4476s dnsmasq : Depends: dnsmasq-base 4476s nftables : Depends: libnftables1 (= 1.1.1-1build1) but it is not installable 4476s E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 4476s ‣ "apt-get -o APT::Architecture=amd64 -o APT::Architectures=amd64 -o APT::Install-Recommends=false -o APT::Immediate-Configure=off -o APT::Get::Assume-Yes=true -o APT::Get::AutomaticRemove=true -o APT::Get::Allow-Change-Held-Packages=true -o APT::Get::Allow-Remove-Essential=true -o APT::Sandbox::User=root -o Acquire::AllowReleaseInfoChange=true -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false -o Dir::Cache=/var/cache/apt -o Dir::State=/var/lib/apt -o Dir::Log=/var/log/apt -o Dir::State::Status=/buildroot/var/lib/dpkg/status -o Dir::Bin::DPkg=/usr/bin/dpkg -o Debug::NoLocking=true -o DPkg::Options::=--root=/buildroot -o DPkg::Options::=--force-unsafe-io -o DPkg::Options::=--force-architecture -o DPkg::Options::=--force-depends -o DPkg::Options::=--no-debsig -o DPkg::Use-Pty=false -o DPkg::Install::Recursive::Minimum=1000 -o pkgCacheGen::ForceEssential=, -o Acquire::http::Proxy=http://squid.internal:3128 -o Acquire::https::Proxy=http://squid.internal:3128 install acl attr bash-completion binutils coreutils curl diffutils dnsmasq dosfstools e2fsprogs findutils gdb grep gzip jq kbd kexec-tools kmod less llvm lvm2 man mdadm mtools nano nftables nvme-cli opensc openssl p11-kit pciutils python3 radvd rsync sed socat strace tar tmux tree util-linux valgrind which wireguard-tools xfsprogs zsh zstd btrfs-progs apt bind9-dnsutils cryptsetup-bin dbus-broker dbus-user-session dmsetup erofs-utils f2fs-tools fdisk git-core gnutls-bin iproute2 iputils-ping isc-dhcp-server knot libcap-ng-utils locales login man-db multipath-tools ncat open-iscsi openssh-client openssh-server passwd polkitd procps psmisc python3-pexpect python3-psutil qrencode quota softhsm2 squashfs-tools stress-ng tgt tpm2-tools tzdata xxd sbsigntool systemd-boot systemd-boot-efi linux-image-generic linux-tools-common linux-tools-virtual" returned non-zero exit code 100. 4477s FAILED: . 4477s /tmp/autopkgtest.hyNPWm/autopkgtest_tmp/mkosi/bin/mkosi --directory /tmp/autopkgtest.hyNPWm/build.eKH/src --output-dir /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build/mkosi.output --cache-dir /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build/mkosi.cache --build-dir /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build/mkosi.builddir --extra-search-path /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build --force build 4477s ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. 4477s INFO: autodetecting backend as ninja 4477s INFO: calculating backend command to run: /usr/bin/ninja -C /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build . 4477s + cleanup 4477s + [ -f /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build/meson-logs/testlog.txt ] 4477s + [ -d /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs/build/test/journal ] 4477s + [ -n /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg ] 4477s + umount /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg/btrfs 4477s + losetup --detach /dev/loop0 4477s + rm -rf /var/tmp/integration-tests.ydrgguHbfg 4477s autopkgtest [23:55:05]: test upstream: -----------------------] 4478s autopkgtest [23:55:06]: test upstream: - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - - I think this is because of upstream's apt pinning for the "mkosi" archive that gets copied into images, but further investigation is needed. 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