Package: autopkgtest Version: 4.3 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256
Dear Maintainer, Let's say one of your autopkgtest dependencies (perhaps recursively) needs to update a configuration file, i.e. via a conffile. E.g. when running the autopkgtests for aptdaemon in an Ubuntu Zesty chroot, the netbase package wants to be installed, and this has conffiles for /etc/{protocols,rpc,services}. This can break the tests when dpkg needs to query about updating these conffiles because the default is to --force-confdef, which prompts the user and waits for a response. This fails in the following way: Setting up netbase (5.4) ... Configuration file '/etc/protocols' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** protocols (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing package netbase (--configure): end of file on stdin at conffile prompt Thus the test dependencies can't be installed and the entire autopkgtest fails. It would be better I think when setting up the testbed, to pass to the `apt-get install` command an additional option: - -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" so that the prompt is bypassed and the dependency can be installed. I can't think of a reason why you'd want to retain the old conffile, since the testbed is (usually? always?) ephemeral. If you can think of a use case for that, then an autopkgtest option would probably be required. I'd opt for YAGNI and just include that dpkg option unconditionally. Seems like it should be a relatively easy fix in adt_testbed.py; I'll try to put together a branch and test it. - -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 1.4~beta4 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.18 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.29 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: ii autodep8 0.8 Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: pn lxc <none> pn lxd-client <none> pn qemu-system <none> pn qemu-utils <none> ii schroot 1.6.10-3 - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEhBcVftvnPZ6sHlObEm61Y6dLBr8FAliHr7kACgkQEm61Y6dL Br9yew/+NRKoZ1e5B3z2I0MRdo2qiNOF76zaP6WDAAoFeLyQaplFshvIMmKTzvKt cERFGnijEKWfeCPOP3wyLbotqVXHYqqJmiqDDmx7jFUJEUFYO9UIPqymUz6LGU4S //Ya1GSYucOCw/VQQfHt1hAlsnyAxWfv2e87xfgFIDhxQihoQu7VZqA8dvGIkvRt nbXiAPf4a2s9/MRjLctEAfwwyw3HbGSzytaDyCgiZH+r562tqccClfe7VhMfGn3j QQvzumjELwcXPQbijZAiNeMHN4JEWQzzXwbRwndlq51F+tsCzrjPrm5bcUnILiVL jA7mrZGMAHanOPl6F4ZC5Idfby7h6gXRqZ5Nc2o/+rUU+TX6iBb/TEtT64ejiy9O G5PxrQGuL2WxEk8ObcVi6E5PW/L9hmx/T/kLm3oVdOEFEmxhPS95uNlu7aKnOg9N 6X4BeDej7UNwRVjG45lgKw1xW0xfZ5rLBvdQtQqsXkECZDgquW298eBM1D4JuPbc I5bZyj4w7pNkWIrBglkeX6rxy3YzH+k/21Fx/pYAtG4PRfk09p7k+YOePATRrclf FBOnf9+KzgfDiCTqgXB1HN/nxbpcTBirg0d4CCrdpW4wcru5VEpnEe9GRxJbY/X3 pZPKAoKkE4jTYgXICqaheEHjAtsh3k0rFNuYmLL9dUHnVi9zGI8= =rNub -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----