Bug#1144844: texinfo: autopkgtest fails under incus-lxc: test-suite FAIL non-zero exit status 2

Hello,

Is the salsa CI already running using incus, i.e. can I trigger the fail just by doing another "git push"?

Hilmar

19.08.2026 12:23:25 Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>:

> Source: texinfo
> Version: 7.3-2
> Severity: important
> Justification: fails autopkgtest on Debian CI infrastructure
> Tags: forky sid
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: lxc
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Debian CI is switching away from lxc containers in favor of incus Containers.
> This is motivated by security concerns from us; incus is based on lxc, but
> orchestrates containers substantially different: containers are not privileged
> (so root in the container is not uid 0 outside of it), and incus imposes a
> stricter isolation from the host system).
> 
> texinfo passes its tests under lxc, but fails under incus.
> The relevant part of the failure is (hopefully):
> 
>> SKIP: test_scripts/other_accented_lang_index_collation_documentlanguage_collation.sh
>> SKIP: test_scripts/info_tex_tex_math_info_math_images.sh
>> ============================================================================
>> Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.3
>> ============================================================================
>> # TOTAL: 127
>> # PASS:  79
>> # SKIP:  42
>> # XFAIL: 0
>> # FAIL:  6
>> # XPASS: 0
>> # ERROR: 0
>> ============================================================================
>> See tests/test-suite.log for debugging.
>> ============================================================================
>> make[6]: Leaving directory '/tmp/autopkgtest.Bu87kl/build.ssP/src/tta/tests'
>> make[5]: Leaving directory '/tmp/autopkgtest.Bu87kl/build.ssP/src/tta/tests'
>> make[6]: *** [Makefile:2260: test-suite.log] Error 1
>> make[5]: *** [Makefile:2395: check-TESTS] Error 2
>> make[4]: *** [Makefile:3375: check-am] Error 2
>> make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/autopkgtest.Bu87kl/build.ssP/src/tta/tests'
>> make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/autopkgtest.Bu87kl/build.ssP/src/tta/tests'
>> make[3]: *** [Makefile:2153: check-recursive] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/autopkgtest.Bu87kl/build.ssP/src/tta'
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1891: check-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/autopkgtest.Bu87kl/build.ssP/src'
>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:2005: check-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [Makefile:2308: check] Error 2
>> autopkgtest [21:07:13]: test test-suite: -----------------------]
>> autopkgtest [21:07:14]: test test-suite:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
>> test-suite           FAIL non-zero exit status 2
> 
> 
> The full autokpgtest logs are available at:
> https://ci.debian.net/experiments/8/regressions/
> (please beware of pagination)
> 
> Common types of failure and suggested fixes are being documented at:
> https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/LxcToIncus
> 
> Note that for the time being, texinfo is still being tested under lxc to
> avoid disturbing its testing migration test results.
> 
> If you decide to add the `isolation-machine` restriction to get this package
> tested under qemu, please mention that explicitly when closing this bug (it's
> fine to do that only in the package changelog entry that closes the bug) so
> that we can configure your package for qemu on ci.debian.net.