Devuan bug report logs - #460
autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 always fails without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.13.1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE,
autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 fails with


ERROR: Command failed: sh -c /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed $ROOT
b''
b'Generating grub configuration file ...\nFound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) on /dev/sda1\ndone\n/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed: Attempting to set up Debian/Ubuntu apt sources automatically\nFailed to auto-detect distribution release name; set $RELEASE explicitly\n'

Setting $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE to a suitable source.list
works around this issue.
This is NOT observed in autopkgtest 5.10.

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto


-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:	3
Codename:	beowulf
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on:
ii  apt-utils       1.8.2.1
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.19.7
ii  procps          2:3.3.15-2+devuan1
ii  python3         3.7.3-1
ii  python3-debian  0.1.35

Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends:
ii  autodep8  0.18

Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests:
pn  lxc               <none>
pn  lxd               <none>
ii  ovmf              0~20181115.85588389-3+deb10u1
pn  qemu-efi-aarch64  <none>
pn  qemu-efi-arm      <none>
pn  qemu-system       <none>
ii  qemu-utils        1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u5
pn  schroot           <none>
ii  vmdb2             0.13.2+git20190215-1

-- no debconf information

Message #8 received at 460@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Control: tags -1 debian

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:05:25PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> Package: autopkgtest
> Version: 5.13.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE,
> autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 fails with
> 
> 
> ERROR: Command failed: sh -c /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed $ROOT
> b''
> b'Generating grub configuration file ...\nFound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) on /dev/sda1\ndone\n/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed: Attempting to set up Debian/Ubuntu apt sources automatically\nFailed to auto-detect distribution release name; set $RELEASE explicitly\n'
> 
> Setting $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE to a suitable source.list
> works around this issue.

Ryutaroh,

Thanks. This looks as if autopkgtest doesn't recognise Devuan release names.

This package is not forked and Devuan uses Debian's package directly.

Are you able to prepare a patch for Debian that would fix this?

Thanks

Mark

Message #15 received at 460@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Dear Mark,

> Are you able to prepare a patch for Debian that would fix this?

Did you mean that the Debian autopkgtest package maintainers should/ought to
support Devuan?
Or, Devuan should maintain a forked version of autopkgtest
that understands Devuan?

Best regards, Ryutaroh

From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Subject: Re: bug#460: autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 always fails without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:33:56 +0100

> Control: tags -1 debian
> 
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:05:25PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
>> Package: autopkgtest
>> Version: 5.13.1
>> Severity: minor
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> Without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE,
>> autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 fails with
>> 
>> 
>> ERROR: Command failed: sh -c /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed $ROOT
>> b''
>> b'Generating grub configuration file ...\nFound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) on /dev/sda1\ndone\n/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed: Attempting to set up Debian/Ubuntu apt sources automatically\nFailed to auto-detect distribution release name; set $RELEASE explicitly\n'
>> 
>> Setting $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE to a suitable source.list
>> works around this issue.
> 
> Ryutaroh,
> 
> Thanks. This looks as if autopkgtest doesn't recognise Devuan release names.
> 
> This package is not forked and Devuan uses Debian's package directly.
> 
> Are you able to prepare a patch for Debian that would fix this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark

Message #20 received at 460@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:36:40PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> Dear Mark,
> 
> > Are you able to prepare a patch for Debian that would fix this?
> 
> Did you mean that the Debian autopkgtest package maintainers should/ought to
> support Devuan?
> Or, Devuan should maintain a forked version of autopkgtest
> that understands Devuan?

It would be preferable to submit a patch to Debian so that autopkgtest
understands Devuan releases (as it currently appears to for Ubuntu).

There are already a few Debian packages that have accepted such patches.

Best wishes

Mark

Message #25 received at 460@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

> It would be preferable to submit a patch to Debian so that autopkgtest
> understands Devuan releases (as it currently appears to for Ubuntu).
> There are already a few Debian packages that have accepted such patches.

Thanks for your quick clarification.
A major blocker to use autopkgtest on Devuan to test a Devuan package
(e.g. thunderbird or firefox) is #461. I have no idea on how to work around #461,
and without a workaround or a right fix to #461, fixes to #459 or #460
do not have much value, as autopkgtest remains completely unusable with
qemu testbed, besides #459 and #460 have easy workarounds.

I will put my effort on #460 after #461 finds a workaround or a fix.

Best regards, Ryutaroh

Message #28 received at 460@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Control: tags -1 moreinfo

Ryutaroh,

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 07:09:31PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> I have no idea on how to work around #461, and without a workaround or a right
> fix to #461, fixes to #459 or #460 do not have much value, as autopkgtest
> remains completely unusable with qemu testbed, besides #459 and #460 have easy
> workarounds.
> 
> I will put my effort on #460 after #461 finds a workaround or a fix.

Now #461 is fixed, did you get resolutions for #460 and #459?

Thanks

Mark

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