Bug#883167: autopkgtest: autopkgtest-satdep.deb unpack fails on wheezy
Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
autopkgtest fails when testing older distributions like wheezy.
The problem seems to be that autopkgtest-satdep.deb uses xz
compression not available in wheezy:
autopkgtest [18:41:24]: ERROR: "dpkg --unpack /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb" failed with stderr "dpkg-deb: error: archive '/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
dpkg: error processing /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Setting the gzip compression fixes the issue:
subprocess.check_call(['dpkg-deb', '-Zgzip', '-b', pkgdir, deb.host],
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on:
ii apt-utils 1.6~alpha5
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4
ii procps 2:3.3.12-3
ii python3 3.6.3-2
ii python3-debian 0.1.31
Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends:
pn autodep8 <none>
Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests:
ii lxc 1:2.0.9-4
pn lxd-client <none>
ii qemu-system 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2
ii qemu-utils 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2
ii schroot 1.6.10-4
-- no debconf information
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