Run downstream Debian autopkgtests in CI via DESTDIR staging#157
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Summary
Adds the downstream Debian autopkgtests to CI, run against a DESTDIR-staged
build tree — unprivileged, with no
mount --bind, proot, or privilegedcontainers. The tests resolve all paths through environment overrides, so the
same suite runs identically on native and QEMU-emulated architectures.
What's included
make stage-ciroot— installs into an ephemeral_ciroot/viamake install DESTDIR=…, stages themake checktest binaries and theirimage data into it, and rewrites
libcupsfilters.pcto point at the stagedtree.
ci/autopkgtest/run.sh— a universal wrapper that pointsPATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH/PKG_CONFIG_PATHat the staged tree and runsthe vendored downstream test scripts.
ci/autopkgtest/debian-tests/:libcupsfilters-2-dev— pkg-config compile/link/run of a consumer programagainst the staged library, under
dbus-run-session.libcupsfilters-2-functionality— runs themake checktest programs(
testdither,testpdf1/2,test-analyze,test-pdf,test-ps,testcmyk,testrgb) against the staged binaries and data.make test-autopkgtesttarget wiring it together, invoked from the CIworkflow on every architecture.
Approach
The downstream scripts default to the system
/usrpaths but acceptenvironment overrides (
LIBCUPSFILTERS_BINDIR,LIBCUPSFILTERS_TESTDIR) thatredirect them into the staging tree. The only change to the downstream
libcupsfilters-2-functionalityscript is two: "${VAR:=/usr/...}"fallbacklines, so it stays fully backward-compatible with the normal Debian
autopkgtest run.