Bug#1122015: systemd: autopkgtest 'test upstream' fails with dnsmasq 2.92~rc1-1

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40011

On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 00:09:05 +0000 Simon Kelley
<simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
> I don't think that dnsmasq is doing anything wrong here, and I tend
to 
> push this onto the systemd tests. I don't understand what the test is
> trying to achieve, but it looks like it's interpreting different, but
> correct, behavior in dnsmasq as a problem.

The purpose of the test is to send invalid content in the dhcp packet
to ensure networkd correctly discards it, instead of passing it further
up. dnsmasq is now escaping the previously invalid content, so it looks
like a normal string, so it's not rejected anymore. The fix is simple
enough.