[ Impact ]
The system testsuites ran as part of the autopkgtests can not succeed without iputils-ping installed, effectively leaving us without regression tests in Questing.
This could make future regressions from other packages go unnoticed as well as prevent SRUs to pass through.
[ Test Plan ]
Successful autopkgtests would be proof of this issue being resolved.
[ Where problems could occur ]
This is a test only change with zero regression potential for the actual product.
[ Other Info ]
A recent MR [0] changed autopkgtest so that it does not install the ubuntu-minimal meta package when creating images.
The same MR added a few dependencies as manually installed [1] to avoid removing basic dependencies.
However, there are still pretty basic dependencies missing, such as iputils-ping.
My concrete problem is the missing iputils-ping, can we please have it back?
A instrumented test run [2] shows APT history.log entry of the packages that now are removed:
372s Start-Date: 2025-10-06 03:27:38
372s Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get --auto-remove -y purge apt-xapian-index cryptsetup landscape-common open-vm-tools vim-runtime manpages ntfs-3g sosreport ubuntu-release-upgrader-core git lxd open-iscsi mdadm dmeventd lvm2 unattended-upgrades update-notifier-common snapd snap-confine ubuntu-core-launcher thermald xdg-user-dirs zerofree xml-core needrestart ubuntu-pro-client
372s Requested-By: ubuntu (1000)
372s Install: gcc-15-base:i386 (15.2.0-4ubuntu4, automatic), libunistring5:i386 (1.3-2, automatic), libidn2-0:i386 (2.3.8-4, automatic), libc6:i386 (2.42-0ubuntu3, automatic), libgcc-s1:i386 (15.2.0-4ubuntu4, automatic)
372s Purge: cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf:amd64 (0.49), python3-incremental:amd64 (24.7.2-3), libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 (126-2), libupower-glib3:amd64 (1.90.9-5), dmeventd:amd64 (2:1.02.205-2ubuntu2), manpages-dev:amd64 (6.9.1-1), libimobiledevice-1.0-6:amd64 (1.3.0+git20250228-2), libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0t64:amd64 (4.1.3-1.2ubuntu1), exfatprogs:amd64 (1.2.9-1), libmm-glib0:amd64 (1.24.2-0ubuntu1), libqrtr-glib0:amd64 (1.2.2-1ubuntu4), libimobiledevice-glue-1.0-0:amd64 (1.3.2-2), open-iscsi:amd64 (2.1.11-1ubuntu3), python3-pyasn1:amd64 (0.6.1-1), python3-s3transfer:amd64 (0.11.4-1), libtss2-tcti-cmd0t64:amd64 (4.1.3-1.2ubuntu1), libmbim-utils:amd64 (1.32.0-1), iputils-ping:amd64 (3:20240905-3ubuntu3), libonig5:amd64 (6.9.10-1), python3-distupgrade:amd64 (1:25.10.6), python3-dateutil:amd64 (2.9.0-4), packagekit-tools:amd64 (1.3.1-1), libintl-perl:amd64 (1.35-1), libqmi-proxy:amd64 (1.36.0-1), libblockdev-part3:amd64 (3.3.0-2.1), modemmanager:amd64 (1.24.2-0ubuntu1), git:amd64 (1:2.51.0-1ubuntu1), libglib2.0-bin:amd64 (2.86.0-2), python3-boto3:amd64 (1.37.9-1), polkitd:amd64 (126-2), lxd-agent-loader:amd64 (0.8), libtss2-sys1t64:amd64 (4.1.3-1.2ubuntu1), libblockdev-swap3:amd64 (3.3.0-2.1), ntfs-3g:amd64 (1:2022.10.3-5), zerofree:amd64 (1.1.1-1build5), libmbim-glib4:amd64 (1.32.0-1), sgml-base:amd64 (1.31+nmu1), usb-modeswitch-data:amd64 (20191128-7), liblzo2-2:amd64 (2.10-3build1), libxmlb2:amd64 (0.3.24-1), sos:amd64 (4.10.0-1), libbytesize1:amd64 (2.11-2), tcl:amd64 (8.6.16), sg3-utils:amd64 (1.48-2ubuntu1), vim:amd64 (2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6), xxd:amd64 (2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6), libfwupd3:amd64 (2.0.16-1), python3-ptyprocess:amd64 (0.7.0-6), python3-hyperlink:amd64 (21.0.0-6), python3-twisted:amd64 (24.11.0-1), libisns0t64:amd64 (0.101-1), libblockdev-fs3:amd64 (3.3.0-2.1), vim-common:amd64 (2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6), liblvm2cmd2.03:amd64 (2.03.31-2ubuntu2), software-properties-common:amd64 (0.114), libplist-2.0-4:amd64 (2.6.0-2build1), libtcl8.6:amd64 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motd-news-config:amd64 (14ubuntu2), libsodium23:amd64 (1.0.18-1build3), python3-pexpect:amd64 (4.9-3), xdg-user-dirs:amd64 (0.18-3), libjson-glib-1.0-common:amd64 (1.10.8+ds-1), lvm2:amd64 (2.03.31-2ubuntu2), libudisks2-0:amd64 (2.10.1-12.1ubuntu2), ubuntu-pro-client-l10n:amd64 (36ubuntu0), libnvme1t64:amd64 (1.15-2), libprotobuf-c1:amd64 (1.5.1-1ubuntu1), fwupd-signed:amd64 (1.55+1.7-1), libaio1t64:amd64 (0.3.113-8), libblockdev-loop3:amd64 (3.3.0-2.1), manpages:amd64 (6.9.1-1), sg3-utils-udev:amd64 (1.48-2ubuntu1), libmodule-find-perl:amd64 (0.17-1), libblockdev3:amd64 (3.3.0-2.1), python3-click:amd64 (8.2.0+0.really.8.1.8-1), libterm-readkey-perl:amd64 (2.38-2build5), python3-service-identity:amd64 (24.2.0-1), open-vm-tools:amd64 (2:13.0.0-2ubuntu1), vim-tiny:amd64 (2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6), usb-modeswitch:amd64 (2.6.1-4ubuntu1), libmbim-proxy:amd64 (1.32.0-1), update-manager-core:amd64 (1:25.10.1), libnss3:amd64 (2:3.114-1), libqmi-utils:amd64 (1.36.0-1), libblockdev-utils3:amd64 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372s End-Date: 2025-10-06 03:28:10
372s
0: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/579
1: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/579/diffs?commit_id=7085dad3549554e804f5ec882a5021d48038cd94
2: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-questing-fnordahl-ovn-dev/questing/amd64/o/ovn/20251006_141452_eb066@/log.gz
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