Control: block 1034351 by 1076739 Thanks. This is a specific case of #1034351, so I'm marking this as a blocker for the general bug.
Fixing this is not as easy as adding fakemachine in the same place where vmdb2 is checked, and we should come up with some re-usable way to check for dependencies that we can use in all the tools. Or we should split the package and use proper dependencies, as suggested in [1], but there are points against it [2]. -- Paride [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039958#22 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039958#37 On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:51:35 -0700 Diane Trout <di...@ghic.org> wrote: > Package: autopkgtest > Version: 5.28 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Hi while setting up a qemu test image on a fairly recently configured > machine I tried running autopkgtest-build-qemu, and it helpfully told me > that it needed vmdb to run. > > However shortly thereafter it crashed with > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/autopkgtest-build-qemu", line 596, in <module> > BuildQemu().run() > File "/usr/bin/autopkgtest-build-qemu", line 347, in run > subprocess.check_call(argv) > File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 408, in check_call > retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 389, in call > with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1024, in __init__ > self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, > File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1901, in _execute_child > raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename) > FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'fakemachine' > > I figured out that it needs the fakemachine package, but it might be > nice if the command suggested the tool was needed like it does with vmdb > > Thank you, > Diane > >
