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

Package: autopkgtest; Maintainer for autopkgtest is (unknown); Source for autopkgtest is src:autopkgtest.

Reported by: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ryutaroh@ict.e.titech.ac.jp>

Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 08:18:09 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: debian, moreinfo

Found in version 5.13.1

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

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

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