Bug#761003: autopkgtest: @ shouldn't be satisfied by a virtual package

[Martin Pitt]

Control: tag -1 pending

Hello Niko,

Niko Tyni [2014-09-09 22:11 +0300]:
> Reading failure logs of Martin Pitt's recent mass test of pkg-perl
> packages [1], there seems to be a problem with testing binary packages
> that are also Provided as a virtual package. A few examples of such
> packages are libhttp-tiny-perl, libio-compress-perl, and libencode-perl.
> 
> I can see that this is probably according to the spec

No, it's actually not: it says 

  ``@`` stands for the package(s) generated by the source package
  containing the tests

i. e. satisfying them with (unrelated) virtual packages is not the
intended meaning of this.

> I guess we could work around this by depending on '@ (>= 0~)'

That particular hack wouldn't work, as @ is just a plain text
substitution, it doesn't take any "qualifiers" into account. So this
needs to be fixed in autopkgtest itself:

  http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=2b841c17c7

Thanks for pointing out this interesting edge case!

BTW, I'm now running the second half of the perl mass test with this
patch applied.

Martin

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