Re: Bug#961138: autodep8 uses host APT packages to generate dependencies for pkg-r-autopkgtest tests
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Hi,
any hint from debian-ci list how to solve this?
Kind regards
Andreas.
Am Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:07:47AM -0700 schrieb Stefano Rivera:
> Package: autodep8
> Version: 0.16
> Severity: normal
>
> The autodep8 generator for pkg-r-autopkgtest uses APT lists to determine
> which R packages from DESCRIPTION exist in Debian. autodep8 is run
> outside the test runner, not inside it, so this makes the behaviour
> dependant on the packages available to the test runner host.
>
> Here's the code that introduced this approach:
> https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autodep8/-/merge_requests/10
>
> It all works when the autopkgtest runner has approximately the same
> packages available as the release under test, but that's not always the
> case.
>
> I noticed that the r-bioc-hdf5 package's test misses a dependency on
> r-cranc-bit64 when the test is run from an older stable release that
> predates this package.
>
> I don't know how else you can solve this particular problem, though...
>
> SR
>
>
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