[pkg-go] Bug#989145: Please do not use uml fakemachine backend in the DEP-8 test

[Christopher Obbard]

On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 07:38 -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On 24/10/2022 06:32, Christopher Obbard wrote:
> > Hi Lucas & Steve,
> > 
> > On Wed, 25 May 2022 17:25:29 -0300 Lucas Kanashiro
> > <kanashiro at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:21:01 -0700 Steve Langasek
> > > <steve.langasek at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > My current suggestion is:
> > > > - ask for an additional autopkgtest in Debian that runs with
> > > > debos
> > > > --disable-fakemachine (instead of replacing the current
> > autopkgtest)
> > > > - introduce an Ubuntu delta that drops the autopkgtest which
> > depends on
> > > > fakemachine
> > > > - optionally, patch debos in Ubuntu to use --disable-
> > > > fakemachine by
> > > default?
> > > 
> > > Since we got no reply so far I patched debos to use
> > > --disable-fakemachine and adjusted the test dependencies and
> > > restrictions in Ubuntu.
> > > 
> > > Hopefully, we'll sort this out in Debian and then we can drop the
> > delta
> > > added.
> > I plan on implementing the following when releasing a new version:
> > 
> > 1) modify the build-chroot autopkgtest to use --disable-fakemachine
> > in
> > the debos call and remove the additional dependencies (e.g. just
> > running on the host, this will need Restrictions: needs-sudo)
> 
> I think you meant "needs-root" restriction here, right?

Well, either works for me, but typically a user who is using debos with
--disable-fakemachine will use sudo to elevate privileges rather than
running as the root account. This will make the test better reflect
reality. Does it make sense to use needs-sudo in this case?

> 
> > 2) add an additional autopkgtest, build-chroot-uml to build a
> > chroot
> > using the uml backend, but with Restrictions: skip-not-installable
> > so
> > to not fail if user-mode-linux is not available in downstreams?
> 
> This is a possible solution, it should work fine.
> 
> > Would this be suitable or do you have other suggestions which would
> > allow downstreams to test debos without downstream patches :-)
> I believe with that we will be able to make is a sync from Debian
> again 
> in Ubuntu. Thanks for working on it.
>