Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.3.1 Severity: important I am unable to test my uploads because my debian/control file lists a binary which conflicts with one of the dependencies of another package from the same source package. autopkgtest seems to assume that all binaries built from a source package must all be co-installable with each other.
e.g. lava-lxc-mocker Conflicts with lxc - this is because it is trying to mock up LXC for particular test use cases involving docker (and lxc does not operate inside docker) However, lava-dispatcher depends on LXC - this isn't a problem because lava-lxc-mocker Provides lxc. However, autopkgtest is now failing to handle these dependencies and even when I remove lava-lxc-mocker from the .dsc and .changes file manually, it assumes that because the package is listed in debian/control, that it MUST be co-installable with every other binary built from that source package. This is simply wrong - nothing in Policy gives any grounds for this assumption. When testing my package builds, I do not use debci for the same reasons, I must select the binaries to install so as to exclude lava-lxc-mocker as my test system does use LXC. If my test system was in docker, I would need to install lava-lxc-mocker instead of LXC. autopkgtest needs to allow for dependencies which are allowed by Policy - that a binary listed in debian/control may conflict, provide, replace a dependency of any other package - *including* any binary built by this particular source package. It seems that this won't affect runs of autopkgtest in ci.debian.net because those pull from the archive but it cripples my ability to test uploads before the packages reach the main archive. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 1.6.1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii procps 2:3.3.14-1+b1 ii python3 3.6.4-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.32 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: ii autodep8 0.12 Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: ii lxc 1:2.0.9-6 pn lxd-client <none> pn qemu-system <none> ii qemu-utils 1:2.12+dfsg-1+b1 ii schroot 1.6.10-4 -- no debconf information
