Dear Maintainer,

I made a qemu testbed by debci setup -f -s sid -a amd64 -b qemu.
Then I run autopkgtest -B -U -u debci libnfs -- qemu
The testsuite always fails with the following message

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper
sudo: a password is required

The log is attached.

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto

Hi Simon,
Thank you very much for the explanation.
Previously reported another issue to src:libnfs
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983362
seems to be caused by the same machanism.

Should #983362 and #983367 be merged and reassigned to autopkgtest?

Bes regards, Ryutaroh

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#983367: gvfs: autopkg test always fails on qemu testbed
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:39:16 +0000

I was told that autopkg test scripts should not assume that an ordinary user can sudo at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983432#10

Hi Ryutaroh.

This can be looked at several ways and thank you for collecting a few opinions.

As Simon pointed out passwordless sudo is available in Ubuntu test
images (both for VMs and LXC runners), thus it is not a surprise that
tests started relying on that. IMO making passwordless sudo available
is the most pleasant way of enabling testing as a normal user and
still allowing raising privileges for a few operations.
On Ubuntu isolation-container and isolation-machine will keep implying
passwordless sudo being available and IMO the easiest solution forward
would be generating Debian test images the same way. Personally I'd
like to see Debian executing the tests using sudo and any other way
would be just more complicated.

The needs-sudo restriction can be a good way of documenting the tests'
requirements and the test runners' capability.

Should none of the above would be adopted in Debian I can make the
test SKIP if sudo fails.

Cheers,
Balint

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libnfs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 983362@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> (supplier of updated libnfs package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:09:23 +0200
Source: libnfs
Binary: libnfs-dev libnfs-utils libnfs-utils-dbgsym libnfs14 libnfs14-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 5.0.2-1~exp1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>,
Changed-By: Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>
Description:
 libnfs-dev - NFS client library (development files)
 libnfs-utils - NFS client library (binaries)
 libnfs14   - NFS client library (shared library)
Closes: 983362 1039578
Changes:
 libnfs (5.0.2-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Remove myself as a Maintainer
   * debian/watch: Convert to version 4 format
   * debian/gbp.conf: Set upstream-branch to 'upstream'
   * debian/gbp.conf: Set upstream-vcs-tag to empty.
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     branch.
   * New upstream version 5.0.2 (Closes: #1039578)
   * debian/tests/control: Adds needs-sudo restriction to autopkgtest
     (Closes: #983362)
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   * Bump SO version
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