[Bug 2009814] Re: Inetutils is failing almost all autopkgtests

[Dominik Viererbe]

1. I found a typo in the debian/control file of both patches (notice
duplicate ping6 instead of ping4/ping6):

Provides: ping (= 1.0), ping6 (= 1.0), ping6 (= 1.0)
Conflicts: ping (<< 1.0), ping6 (<< 1.0), ping6 (<< 1.0)

instead of:

Provides: ping (= 1.0), ping4 (= 1.0), ping6 (= 1.0)
Conflicts: ping (<< 1.0), ping4 (<< 1.0), ping6 (<< 1.0)

I attached a new tar that contains the fixed patches

2. I have trouble verifying that the patch fixes the problem

When I run autopkgtest in the source tree it passes all tests
"autopkgtest ./inetutils-2.4/ -- schroot lunar-amd64" 

but when I run autopkgtest with my PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~dviererbe/+archive/ubuntu/lp-2009814) installed
I get

ERROR: erroneous package: rules extract failed with exit code 1

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Title:
  Inetutils is failing almost all autopkgtests

Status in inetutils package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  During the MIR Process for inetutils-telnet
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inetutils/+bug/2008789) I
  noticed that inetutils fails almost all autopkgtests. See:
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/i/inetutils

  The reason for the failures seems to be that inetutils-ping is in conflict with iputils-ping.
  The autopkgtests pass for i386, because iputils-ping does not build for i386
  (See: https://packages.ubuntu.com/lunar/iputils-ping)

  This demonstrates a problem for the MIR of inetutils-telnet. Assuming
  that inetutils-telnet will get into main; inetutils-telnet tests will
  fail every time a inetutils-* package fails, although they are in
  universe and the failure is unrelated.

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