On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 12:52:31 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> autopkgtest-build-podman's failure is due to the issue reported in [1], i.e.
> the Debian setup of podman requires `dbus-user-session`, but none of the
> podman-related packages Depends on it.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1013344
Is there anything that could or should be done in autopkgtest to resolve
this? The only thing I can see that would help from the autopkgtest side
would be a dependency on dbus-user-session, but the dependencies of the
various autopkgtest-build-* tools are only Suggests anyway (we consider
the core functionality of autopkgtest to be running tests, not setting
up any specific backend), and adding a Suggests on dbus-user-session
seems like it wouldn't be a particularly helpful hint for users that
the absence of dbus-user-session is why they're seeing this error.
If this isn't actionable from autopkgtest's side, then I think the best
thing would be to reassign this bug to podman, merge it with #1013344,
and give it an "affects" on autopkgtest so that it'll still show up in
our list of known issues.
smcv
