#973336 apt: test suite dependency valgrind is not available on armel

Package:
src:apt
Source:
apt
Submitter:
Ryutaroh Matsumoto
Date:
2022-02-16 22:33:04 UTC
Severity:
minor
#973336#5
Date:
2020-10-29 05:54:46 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

autopkgtest-virt-lxc fails on armel as follows.
(I used Raspberry Pi 4B running latest Debian testing).
The LXC testbed was made by "debci -s sid -a armel".
autopkgtest was run with -u debci -U -B.

pkg-config-test      FAIL badpkg
blame: apt
autopkgtest [12:54:35]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
run-tests            FAIL badpkg
blame: apt
badpkg: Test dependencies are unsatisfiable. A common reason is that your testbed is out of date with respect to the archive, and you need to use a current testbed or run apt-get update or use -U.
pkg-config-test      FAIL badpkg
blame: apt
badpkg: Test dependencies are unsatisfiable. A common reason is that your testbed is out of date with respect to the archive, and you need to use a current testbed or run apt-get update or use -U.


Complete log of autopkgtest is attached as zip file.

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto
#973336#10
Date:
2020-10-29 06:03:29 UTC
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Sorry I forgot to attach the zipped log. Ryutaroh
#973336#15
Date:
2020-10-29 09:42:21 UTC
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Control: retitle -1 apt: test suite dependency valgrind is not available on armel

Well valgrind is not available on armel, so the test suite
can't run as it needs valgrind for a test.

I don't think we have a sane way to express test recommends,
so while the test could be skipped if valgrind is not available,
I don't see how to make valgrind optional.

And I don't really care much for armel, really.

But patches welcome, as long as they don't hardcode a list of
architectures for valgrind in the test control file.
#973336#22
Date:
2020-10-29 11:14:58 UTC
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valgrind-if-available (#928184) is not yet a thing, but that's a problem
only for build-time testsuite, not autopkgtests.


Meow!
#973336#27
Date:
2020-10-29 11:39:18 UTC
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This would skip the entire test suite, which makes it pointless. I'm
not gonna run each test case on its own, and there's no difference
between tests that always failed or were always skipped, so it's
pointless.
#973336#32
Date:
2022-02-16 22:31:34 UTC
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Also riscv64, plus a lot of archs I don't care about as much.

It's now in the archive, you can make the autopkgtest b-dep:
valgrind-if-available.


Meow!