[Bug 1934100] Please test proposed package

[Brian Murray]

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted autopkgtest into focal-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/5.11ubuntu1.1 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: autopkgtest (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-bionic

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Title:
  Setup Always-Include-Phased-Updates (for hirsute+)

Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in autopkgtest source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in autopkgtest source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in autopkgtest source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Committed
Status in autopkgtest source package in Impish:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  APT 2.2.4 and newer, in hirsute-proposed, apply phasing to non-installed packages as well, to fix bug 1925745. This causes autopkgtest to no longer retrieve source packages (apt-get source still works fine), and hence the tests to fail - example:

  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-
  hirsute/hirsute/amd64/u/ubuntu-advantage-
  tools/20210618_132205_96afa@/log.gz

  We need to change setup-testbed to set APT::Get::Always-Include-
  Phased-Updates to true, as we did on the infrastructure and merged
  upstream in https://salsa.debian.org/ci-
  team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/125

  We set this unconditionally, it's a no-op for older releases.

  [Test plan]
  Correctness of the APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates feature is checked by the APT test suite. We only need to validate that the correct line is being written to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90always-include-phased-updates.

  Run autopkgtest-build-lxd or autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud to
  create a new hirsute image and check that the file sets the option.

  [Where problems could occur]
  Syntax could be wrong, and hence building images could fail.

  Semantics should arguably be more correct, as Always-Include-Phased-
  Updates is the legacy apt behavior against which autopkgtest was
  developed.

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