Public bug reported: Sometimes, a package testsuite will regress for reasons unrelated to any direct dependency of the package, and as a result there can be a rather large search space to find the package responsible. Although autopkgtest logs will include the output of all of the various apt runs, this output is very difficult to diff in order to find out what packages have changed, making it even harder to find the responsible package. There may also be regressions caused by packages already installed on the system, that therefore don't show up in any apt output.
Including a sorted list of all packages installed on the system (with versions) would make this a lot easier to sift through. (As a further example, it appears that GTK has somehow regressed for all tests in xenial-proposed, trying to connect to a mir backend instead of the xvfb provided by the autopkgtest runner - but this change is not attributable to any of the packages that are being installed, so it must be something different in the base environment?) ** Affects: autopkgtest (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1559629 Title: autopkgtest should include a sorted list of all installed packages in its log output To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+bug/1559629/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs