[Bug 1205110] Re: autopkgtest should not depend on pbuilder

[Martin Pitt]

Hm, I was going to use equivs, but even that pulls in over twice the
size of dependencies (4 MB for pbuilder, 9.2 MB for equivs, both with
--no-install-recommends) on a minimal debootstrapped container. I also
experimented with directly writing a DEBIAN/control file and calling
dpkg-deb -b on it. I think that's the minimal solution, but it requires
manual resolution and filtering of arch specific dependencies. E. g.
right now your test can do "Depends: foo [armhf ppc64el]" or even
[linux-any], and dpkg-deb does not understand this. That's probably the
reason why equivs builds a source package instead of just building the
binary directly.

It may be possible to use dpkg-gencontrol or the Dpkg::Control perl
modules to do that arch-specific dependency filtering; pulling in just
dpkg-dev pulls in 3.3 MB instead of 4, which is the only case of
actually reducing dependencies.

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Title:
  autopkgtest should not depend on pbuilder

Status in “autopkgtest” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The autopkgtest package depends on pbuilder, but it shouldn't.  There
  are several backend options for autopkgtest that don't require
  pbuilder; we shouldn't have to install pbuilder just for
  /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic.

  A possible substitute for this would be mk-build-deps from devscripts.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: autopkgtest 2.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-2.11-generic 3.10.0
  Uname: Linux 3.10.0-2-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jul 25 11:43:49 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (1035 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: autopkgtest
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-06 (79 days ago)

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