Control: tags -1 + pending Hi, On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 08:47:21PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Currently this regression is blocking the migration of dpkg to testing > [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report against > both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the > bug to the right package? We (apt & dpkg maintainers) talked about this on IRC already and I pushed a workaround (of sorts) to apt.git [0] for this. The underlying problem is that the hookscript pkg-config installs does not support DPKG_ROOT while the newer version of dpkg does support it (more) now reporting architectures from the DPKG_ROOT rather than the host system it previously did (arguably incorrectly). Based on that pkg-config-dpkghook attempts to create (or remove) symlinks in /usr/bin for architectures added/removed in dpkgroot which it isn't allowed to (as it isn't run as root) and fails. APTs testcases detect these failures in "dpkg --add-architecture" and assumes it is working with a previous version of a dpkg Multi-Arch implementation used e.g. in older Ubuntus resulting in the tests eventually using commandline options unknown to the dpkg version it is really using here. The workaround detects these failures and ignores them now – as the hookscript is post-invoke the architecture is added, so we got what we were asking for – but ideally #824774 in pkg-config would be resolved. (Ignoring that dpkg should also probably not read /etc/dpkg.cfg.d files from the root system, but that might be an even longer endeavour) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/3fe1419433f195d57b948b100b218cf14a2841d0
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