#1133059 autopkgtest: does not resolve dependencies for test arch in foreign architecture testing

Package:
autopkgtest
Source:
autopkgtest
Submitter:
Alessandro Astone
Date:
2026-04-09 11:55:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1133059#5
Date:
2026-04-09 11:54:22 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The documentation at
https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/1d2f93dc1d3ad1e3f27e3ace9a520d47372d8a20/doc/README.package-tests.rst
states that:

 > Binary packages from the source package under test are always
installed for the test architecture, as though they had been specified
as |foo:${DEB_HOST_ARCH}|.
 > Other dependencies in the |Depends| field are treated like cross
build-dependencies, with the testbed architecture taking the place of
the build architecture and the architecture under test taking the place
of the host architecture:

      * |Multi-Arch: foreign| packages are installed for the testbed
        architecture
      * All other packages are installed for the architecture under
        test, unless qualified with |:native| in which case the testbed
        architecture is used

But in reality all other dependencies are always installed for the
testbed architecture, even Multi-Arch: same ones.

This makes it not possible to add library dependencies that are
dlopen'ed from the tested binary, if these were not a hard Depends of
the tested binary.