This looks similar to bug 1831492. @vorlon was insistent that was a bug in autopkgtest, but personally it seemed like a real bug to me, for the reasons i explained in that bug.
However for this bug, I think it actually is a bug in autopkgtest, because the resulting binaries are in fact separated by arch, even though autopkgtest doesn't realize that. IIUC, autopkgtest is looking at the package list for binutils, and it sees the same packages provided by 'binutils' as well as 'binutils-mipsen'; for example: in debian/control for binutils in eoan-proposed there is: Package: binutils-mipsel-linux-gnu Priority: optional Architecture: mipsel in debian/control for binutils-mipsen in eoan-proposed there is: Package: binutils-mipsel-linux-gnu Priority: optional Architecture: amd64 i386 x32 autopkgtest seems not currently smart enough to notice that those source packages don't *actually* overlap with those binary packages, because they are limited to separate archs. So autopkgtest thinks that both source packages provide the same binary package, which causes this confusing error, because it can't find the '4~c4ubuntu1' version of the binutils source package. Since I assume that even if we *do* start building for mips arch, you don't want the binutils source package to build for it (you would want the binutils-mipsen package to build for it, right?), removing the conflicting binary packages from the binutils package debian/control would "fix" this autopkgtest error. Alternately, the autopkgtest should be taught that it needs to parse the arch fields for the binary package list, to account for situations like this. That's all assuming I haven't misunderstood everything, of course. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845157 Title: runner/autopkgtest fails to setup env with binary packages moved to another packge, and different source/binary versions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+bug/1845157/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
