Using "pbuilder" I've set up a minimal chroot for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic as of today. Inside that chroot, I installed autopkgtest, pkg-perl- autopkgtest and ack (version 2.18+dfsg-1, 2.19.01-1 doesn't seem to be on my mirror yet) from bionic-proposed and ran "autopkgtest ./ -- null" inside the unpacked source package.
"Unfortunately" all tests passed successfully. So I can't really reproduce the issue that causes the autopkgtest failures which keep ack out of Ubuntu for quite some months now. And since ack passes all tests on Debian's autopkgtest infrastructure, I more and more come to the conclusion that this issue isn't with ack but with the way Ubuntu's autopkgtest infrastructure runs the tests. ** Also affects: autopkgtest (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1707979 Title: No ack or ack-grep in artful. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ack/+bug/1707979/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs