Bug#1147717: rust-rust-apt regressed in reproducibility

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Source: rust-rust-apt
Version: 0.11.2-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Blake Lee <blake at volian.org>, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at debian.org>, reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: environment

Hi,

rust-rust-apt in unstable can't migrate to testing because the QA
infrastructure couldn't reproduce the binary packages in unstable while
it could reproduce the version in testing [1, 2].

There are two problems:

1. The tests running during the build depend on apt which is not
essential but happen to be installed on the buildds. Please add a build
dependency. See also [3].

2. The tests fail if no package on the host system is installed
automatically. Please rewrite the test to either not assume that or
create a mockup environment.

Cheers Jochen


[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=rust-rust-apt
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
[3] https://release.debian.org/reproducible-builds-host-requirements.html