Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.17 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Currently, if I want to test a fixed package on a porter-box machine, there is no way to do so. To elaborate, let's say I have version 'x' of a package 'foo' which fails it's autopkgtest. Now, I fix it locally on a porter box, and want to test my fix before upload, by running autopkgtest on the porter box. Since autopkgtest needs root access to install the package on the machine I am testing on, it will not work, as root perms on porter machines are not granted. Is it somehow possible to circumvent this? Or is it somehow possible to run autopkgtest w/o installing the package, and "assuming" that the .deb is already there? Regards, Nilesh -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 2.3.13 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9 ii procps 2:3.3.17-5 ii python3 3.9.7-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.39 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: ii autodep8 0.25 Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: pn fakemachine <none> ii lxc 1:4.0.10-1 pn lxd <none> ii ovmf 2021.08-2 pn ovmf-ia32 <none> pn qemu-efi-aarch64 <none> pn qemu-efi-arm <none> pn qemu-system <none> ii qemu-utils 1:6.1+dfsg-6 ii schroot 1.6.10-12 pn vmdb2 <none> -- no debconf information
