Bug#806542: liblinux-prctl-perl: autopkgtest failures: seccomp, capbset

Sat Nov 28 19:03:30 UTC 2015

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 07:22:01PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

> > Package: liblinux-prctl-perl
> > Version: 1.6.0-2 

> > This package recently started failing its autopkgtest checks on ci.debian.net:

> Thanks for reporting this. I can reproduce the test failures if I
> build in a LXC container (running sid) on a sid host.
> 
> As datapoint: Looks ci.d.n switched from schroot based test to LXC
> based for at least liblinux-prctl-perl.

Yeah, that makes sense. I expect the failures are just caused
by different defaults and/or restrictions inside lxc containers.

Perhaps an upstream bug ("fails to build in LXC containers") and skipping
those tests for now would be appropriate?
-- 
Niko