Just for sharing a snippet, here would be the correct usage of
`distro_info`:
```python
import distro_info
d = distro_info.UbuntuDistroInfo()
x = d.get_all()
x.index("xenial") < x.index("noble")
```
This reverts commit 75d0ee30a16c6ccb23b409e115444b82cb933c5d.
This reverts commit 2317404ee1bba836c4cbbe284f8cf27c34c924aa.
This reverts commit 9b1167f52d3c9f7fe2868d11fa1b509e75a275c3.
This reverts commit f8c4cc3ecc19509c05345bf0f34ce76462aa1186.
After using the logging from the previous commit, we figured out which
variable to use to get the architecture for the binary packages of a
source package. This commit amends the issue by checking said variable.
This commit also removes the excess logging implemented in the former
commit.
Still trying to figure out this new functionality. We're getting close
with more logging, so I have added a little bit more logging, and
stopped using what was presumably a lit of all binaries for i386, and
now am using what is hopefully just the list of binaries for the source
package
Since we can't seem to figure out where we're going wrong, I thought I'd
just add verbose logging here and hope it helps with debugging the new
feature, which aims to reduce the number of i386 tests queued.
The latest approach unfortunately didn't work, so I'm trying this
approach using the binaries_info variable.
I've also included the full traceback when the functionality doesn't
work, to enable easier debugging
Recent investigations indicated that approximately 85% of all of the
i386 tests run at autopkgtest.ubuntu.com are pointless.
These tests are pointless for the following reason:
for end users, the dependencies of an arch: all package on
non-arch: all packages are satisfied by the amd64 binaries, not i386
binaries.
This commit introduces a check in the `tests_for_source` function, which
is the function that generates a list of tests to be requested for a
src package on a specified architecture.
The check itself takes the src package name, gets the list of binaries
for that src package and checks to see if the architecture for all of
the binaries of said src package is "all". If all the binaries are
Architecture: "all", then the function returns an empty list and no
tests will be requested for that src package on i386.
Since it's quite hard to test britney code, the implementation is
wrapped in a try except block as to avoid tracebacks blocking britney
runs.
The try except block should be removed once the change is considered to
be stable.
autopkgtest-cloud will now serve:
autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/static/autopkgtest.db.sha256
Britney now calculates the sha256 of the newly downloaded db locally and
checks that it matches the sha256 file served by autopkgtest-cloud,
instead of checking that the content-length header matches the
size of the new downloaded database.
Since the most recent apache2 security update in focal [1], the
content-length header isn't served by default, and it seems that when
it is served it's not entirely accurate. This check has become
brittle, and so we have implemented this new mechanism.
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/2061816
