Bug#834911: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: FTBFS too much often (Failed 2/12 test programs)

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 07:27:22PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:14:41 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > > FWIW, the package builds fine for me (amd64 sid cowbuilder).
> > 
> > The failures seem to be related to these log entries:
> > 
> >  flAbsPath on /var/lib/apt/var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (2: No such file or directory)
> >  Could not open file  - open (2: No such file or directory)
> >  Problem opening 
> >  The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > 
> > which suggests this is #833656.
> 
> Ack, that was my first idea as well after reading the logs.
> But still, the tests pass for me when I build the package (as well as
> the autopkgtests).

I can reproduce it with libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~rc1, and it goes away with
libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~rc2. The build logs have 1.3~rc1. (Looks like they
may be testing stretch not sid.)

Maybe this change in ~rc2?

  * default to Dir=/ in dpkg/status file finding magic
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org