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On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 20:19 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: iproute2
> Version: 5.4.0-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> User: 
> ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal ubuntu-patch
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> In Ubuntu, we are in the process of moving the i386 architecture to a
> compatibility-only layer on amd64, and therefore we are also moving
> our
> autopkgtest infrastructure to test i386 binaries in a cross-
> environment.
> 
> This requires changes to some tests so that they are cross-aware and
> can do
> the right thing.
> 
> The iproute2 tests currently fail in this environment, because they
> include
> a build test that does not invoke the toolchain in a cross-aware
> manner and
> because they try to install cross versions of base packages when they
> should
> use the available host versions.  I've verified that the attached
> patch lets
> the tests successfully build (and run) i386 tests on an amd64 host.
> 
> Note that upstream autopkgtest doesn't currently set DEB_HOST_ARCH so
> this
> is a complete no-op in Debian for the moment.  Support for cross-
> testing in
> autopkgtest is currently awaiting review at
> https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/merge_requests/69
>  and once
> landed, will still have no effect unless autopkgtest is invoked with
> a '-a'
> option.  So this change should be safe to land in your package
> despite this
> not being upstream in autopkgtest.
> 
> Thanks for considering,

Thanks for the patch, applied on Salsa, will be part of the next
upload.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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