On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:41:27AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I was testing a seemingly unrelated package (libzfs6linux in my case, it > does not depend on debconf) with piuparts and am faced with a failure > that seems disconnected: > > | 0m12.8s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: > | /var/cache/debconf/tmp.ci/ not owned > | > | 0m12.8s ERROR: FAIL: Installation and purging test. > > As I understand things, my initial chroot did not contain that empty > directory. Then my installation+purge test employed debconf in some way > and debconf left it around due to #1028128. It being left behind feels > vaguely intentional, but it still confuses piuparts. > > The problem here is that this situation makes unrelated packages fail > piuparts testing. In principle, that should affect all packages, so it > would be widely known and making everyones tests fail. Obviously, that's > not the case, so something about my setup is special. I'm using a chroot > generated using mmdebstrap rather than debootstrap and that may be the > thing that's special. > > Either way, I'd appreciate if debconf and piuparts could agree on > whether /var/cache/debconf/tmp.ci should be left behind.
While there are alternatives, they're somewhat awkward. I'm inclined to suggest that "/var/cache/debconf/tmp.ci/" should be added to the default Settings.ignored_files in piuparts. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
