Britney has a special case for essential packages to ensure that any
package that with essential packages are not installable. This check
did not account for a case, where a package is not co-installable with
two or more pseudo-essential package part of the same OR dependency.
A contrived example based on real world data:
Package: foo
# Conflict with all providers of "awk"
Conflicts: mawk | gawk | original-awk
This alone is actually not sufficient to trigger the bug, as
_get_min_pseudo_ess_set is in theory some times smart enough to pick
an "obvious" solution between the pseudo-essential option.
When it does, one of the above ends up in the (de-facto) essential set
and then the installability tester correctly rejects "foo".
Though, even with the fix above, the handling for this is probably not
correct if the essential set is not (fully co-)installable. However,
that basically only happens if we are bootstrapping an architecture
(or testing is royally broken, in which case this is the least of our
worries).
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Add some "no cover" to some unrecoverable exceptions
(e.g. misconfiguration) or base-class methods that are not intended to
be invoked.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
doop_source never (no longer?) creates an element in "virtual" where
the package name is prefixed with "-", so we can drop that branch.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
The doop_source method does not generate any /binary/ undo items,
where the package name starts with "-". This fact allows us to remove
a branch in the undo code. This also happens to be fortunate because
the call to "inst_tester.remove_testing_binary" in that branch happens
to be wrong.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
As a side effect, remove mips64el from NEW_ARCHES as we no longer need
that as a work around.
Closes: Debian/britney2#12
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Niels Thykier
Jonathan Wiltshire