Bug#931181: init-system-helpers breaks chrony autopkgtest

[Vincent Blut]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:57:15PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:

Source: init-system-helpers, chrony
Control: found -1 init-system-helpers/1.57
Control: found -1 chrony/3.4-4
Severity: important
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User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update

Dear maintainers,

With a recent upload of init-system-helpers the autopkgtest of chrony
fails in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages
of init-system-helpers from unstable. It passes when run with only
packages from testing. In tabular form:
                      pass            fail
init-system-helpers    from testing    1.57
chrony                 from testing    3.4-4
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of
init-system-helpers to testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I
filed this bug report against both packages. Can you please investigate
the situation and reassign the bug to the right package? If needed,
please change the bug's severity.

Actually, init-system-helpers is not responsible for the chrony test suite breakage. It would have happened with any package triggering the test. So this failure is solely chrony’s fault. The cause is that the chrony upstream-simulation-test-suite test pulls clknetsim HEAD which introduces new debugging features unknown to chrony’s 111-knownclient and 112-port tests. I’ll have a fix for this soon! Meanwhile, can the release team let migrate init-system-helpers before I fix chrony?

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Cheers,
Vincent

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