[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] new version of systemd seems to break autopkgtests of policykit-1, kwin and python-dbusmock

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Paul,

you are quick!

Am 23.06.2018 um 13:30 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> Dear systemd maintainers, all,
> 
> With the upload of version 239-1 of systemd the autopkgtests of the
> policykit-1, kwin and python-dbusmock started to fail¹.
> 
> It appear that policykit-1 fails to install since the 239-1 version of
> systemd with (in the unstable test run, in the testing test run as well
> as in the python-dbusmock test run):
> Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-20) ...
> --runtime cannot be used with unmask
> dpkg: error processing package policykit-1 (--configure):
>  installed policykit-1 package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of autopkgtest-satdep:
>  autopkgtest-satdep depends on policykit-1; however:
>   Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.
> 
> This looks very serious to me, can you, together with the maintainers of
> the failing packages (which I CC'ed), please investigate if the failure
> is really caused by systemd or if policykit-1 needs updating. In the
> latter case, I think a "Breaks" in systemd is very much justified.
> (Please let me know when this happens, I may have to help autopkgtest a
> bit due to bug #896023).

I already tracked down the reason for the policykit-1 failure and it is
indeed a regression/behaviour change in systemd. Another affected
package is avahi-daemon (which also uses systemctl unmask --runtime),
unfortunately it doesn't have an autopkgtest yet.

Yay for autopkgtests!

I've filed this upstream for now
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9393

I'll see if upstream agrees to change back to the old behaviour. If not,
we'll indeed have to update avahi-daemon and policykit-1

https://sources.debian.org/src/avahi/0.7-3.1/debian/avahi-daemon.postrm/?hl=7#L7
https://sources.debian.org/src/policykit-1/0.105-20/debian/policykit-1.preinst/?hl=15#L15

and add appropriate Breaks to systemd.

We already have another, unrelated RC bug in systemd which will prevent
testing migration for now.

> In the kwin case, it is currently failing in unstable for some time
> already and detected regressions in quite some packages in the KDE
> stack, but the error in this test is different:
> FAIL!  : KeyboardLayoutTest::testWindowPolicy() Compared values are not
> the same
>    Actual   (((xkb->layoutName())))

The breakage in kwin looks unrelated to me (maybe caused by the libinput
update, dunno).

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