Bug#961138: autodep8 uses host APT packages to generate dependencies for pkg-r-autopkgtest tests

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

* Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> [2021-10-29 09:53]:

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 07:46:30AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

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Hi,

any hint from debian-ci list how to solve this?

Quoting Paul from
https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autodep8/-/merge_requests/10#note_279588,
I think the right way to solve this is:

Maybe instead of querying, the code could just unconditionally add all
packages in the Suggests and for each add an alternative that's always
installed? I recall that apt will install the first alternative if it
easily can.

Cheers Jochen

I would simply add add them all to Suggests. As they are not automatically installed by default it should be fine if not all are installable. Note that this bug is related to #1089197 and makes this package non reproducible on reproduce.debian.net. Also we would like to drop apt and the apt cache from the build chroot so fixing this would be appreciated.

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