Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
autopkgtest fails when testing older distributions like wheezy. The problem seems to be that autopkgtest-satdep.deb uses xz compression not available in wheezy: autopkgtest [18:41:24]: ERROR: "dpkg --unpack /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb" failed with stderr "dpkg-deb: error: archive '/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up dpkg: error processing /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Setting the gzip compression fixes the issue: subprocess.check_call(['dpkg-deb', '-Zgzip', '-b', pkgdir, deb.host], -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 1.6~alpha5 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii python3 3.6.3-2 ii python3-debian 0.1.31 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: pn autodep8 <none> Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: ii lxc 1:2.0.9-4 pn lxd-client <none> ii qemu-system 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2 ii qemu-utils 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2 ii schroot 1.6.10-4 -- no debconf information
