Bug#680122: autopkgtest-xenlvm: ..upgrade fails, assumes buggy etc old version runs

[arnt at c2i.net]

Package: autopkgtest-xenlvm
Version: 2.2.0
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?

..this loop:
Errors were encountered while processing:
 autopkgtest-xenlvm
Press Return to continue.

Setting up autopkgtest-xenlvm (2.2.0) ...
adtxenlvm: reading configuration for firewall setup:
finding host hostname, supposely our own FQDN: celsius.lan
finding host IP address from hostname celsius.lan: celsius.lan does not
exist invoke-rc.d: initscript adtxenlvm, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing autopkgtest-xenlvm (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 6 Errors were encountered while processing:
 autopkgtest-xenlvm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up autopkgtest-xenlvm (2.2.0) ...
adtxenlvm: reading configuration for firewall setup:
finding host hostname, supposely our own FQDN: celsius.lan
finding host IP address from hostname celsius.lan: celsius.lan does not
exist invoke-rc.d: initscript adtxenlvm, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing autopkgtest-xenlvm (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 6 Errors were encountered while processing:
 autopkgtest-xenlvm
Press Return to continue.


..3 bugs here, 1.) upgrade fails, assumes buggy etc old version runs,
and 2.) autopkgtest-xenlvm assumes e.g. educational laptops on lans 
have their own FQDNs, and finally 3.) (is this a bug or an intenional 
feature?)  autopkgtest-xenlvm start-up fails if host does not have 
it's own FQDN. 


..dpkg's opinion:
root at celsius:~# dpkg -l autopkgtest-xenlvm |fmt -w 72
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name
Version                              Architecture Description
+++-======================================-===================================
iF  autopkgtest-xenlvm                     2.2.0
all          Xen/LVM2 based testbed snapshot system

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages autopkgtest-xenlvm depends on:
ii  adns-tools [libadns1-bin]  1.4-2
ii  chiark-utils-bin           4.2.0
ii  dmsetup                    2:1.02.74-4
ii  iproute                    20120521-3

Versions of packages autopkgtest-xenlvm recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.41
ii  lvm2         2.02.95-4

Versions of packages autopkgtest-xenlvm suggests:
ii  autopkgtest  2.2.2

-- no debconf information