Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.49 Severity: minor Hi,
while looking into an unrelated(?) testbed failure, I noticed that setup-testbed runs systemd-detect-virt. In theory, this is the right thing to do, but there are several problems with the way this is being done. For one thing, the hosts systemd-detect-virt is being run. As there is no dependency on systemd, it may be missing and then install rng-tools due to a detection failure. For another, we may prepare a vm image from a container and then rng-tools may go missing even though it would be useful. There likely is no perfect solution here and what we currently have is an approximation of reality. Any way this is being changed bears a risk of breaking someone's use case due to the existing false positives and false negatives. I'm not sure how to improve this. Wrapping it in `chroot "$root"` would plausibly result in it always being detected as a container. The choice of installing rng-tools feels more backend-specific than anything else though incus can do both containers and VMs. I you end up figuring that there is no path forward here, please close the bug. In that case it still documents non-obvious behaviour. Helmut
