Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.16
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
/usr/bin/autopkgtest has
# run create_command
script = [
'builddir=$(mktemp -d %s/build.XXX)' % testbed.scratch,
'cd $builddir',
create_command,
'chmod -R a+rX .',
'cd [a-z0-9]*/.',
'pwd >&3',
'sed -n "1 {s/).*//; s/ (/\\n/; p}" debian/changelog >&3',
'set +e; grep -q "^Restrictions:.*\\bbuild-needed\\b"
debian/tests/control 2>/dev/null; echo $? >&3'
]
(result_pwd, testpkg_name, testpkg_version, build_needed_rc) = \
source_rules_command(script, 'extract', results_lines=4)
which works not very good with the Architecture: field.
It will simply cause a build being done if there is also no build-needed
tests on _the architecture we run it for_.
See e.g.
https://salsa.debian.org/libreoffice-team/libreoffice/libreoffice/-/blob/debian-experimental-7.3/tests/control
That causes a full-build on i386 where the build-needed tests are only
done for architectures where also a build-time testsuite failure would
be handled as fatal (here: amd64 and arm64)
Given the many (build-)dependencies of libreoffice libreoffice is
triggered often for testing migration (see
https://ci.debian.net/packages/libr/libreoffice/testing/amd64/)
and this probably will cause some issues - maybe not on i386 but
probably for armhf...
TL;DR: Please make build-needed only honoured on the test actually
specifying it for the arch we run the test for
Regards,
Rene
