Dear Mark,

> Are you able to prepare a patch for Debian that would fix this?

Did you mean that the Debian autopkgtest package maintainers should/ought to
support Devuan?
Or, Devuan should maintain a forked version of autopkgtest
that understands Devuan?

Best regards, Ryutaroh

From: Mark Hindley <mark@???>
Subject: Re: bug#460: autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 always fails without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:33:56 +0100

> Control: tags -1 debian
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:05:25PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
>> Package: autopkgtest
>> Version: 5.13.1
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Without $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE,
>> autopkgtest-build-qemu 5.13.1 fails with
>>
>>
>> ERROR: Command failed: sh -c /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed $ROOT
>> b''
>> b'Generating grub configuration file ...\nFound linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-9-amd64\nFound Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) on /dev/sda1\ndone\n/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed: Attempting to set up Debian/Ubuntu apt sources automatically\nFailed to auto-detect distribution release name; set $RELEASE explicitly\n'
>>
>> Setting $AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE to a suitable source.list
>> works around this issue.
>
> Ryutaroh,
>
> Thanks. This looks as if autopkgtest doesn't recognise Devuan release names.
>
> This package is not forked and Devuan uses Debian's package directly.
>
> Are you able to prepare a patch for Debian that would fix this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark