retry-autopkgtest-regressions returns a strange list

[Brian Murray]

I'm not sure what filtering --only-unknown does but I'd expect the list without --only-unknown to be longer that the list with that switch. Actually testing further its the combination of --only-unknown and --log-regex that produces strange results.

 $ ./retry-autopkgtest-regressions --blocks zlib --log-regex "amss.bin"
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=botch&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gcc-10&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gcc-11&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gcc-12&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gcc-9&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gnustep-base&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=imagemagick&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=libbio-samtools-perl&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8

 $ ./retry-autopkgtest-regressions --blocks zlib --only-unknown --log-regex "amss.bin"
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=botch&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=c2esp&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=fsarchiver&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gcc-10&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gcc-9&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gemma&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=ghostscript&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=glpk&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gnudatalanguage&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=gnustep-base&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=graphviz&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=imagemagick&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=jose&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=kmc&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=leocad&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=libarchive&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=arm64&package=libbio-samtools-perl&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=jammy&arch=amd64&package=linux-lowlatency&trigger=zlib%2F1%3A1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu8

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Trying without --log-regex we have:

 $ ./retry-autopkgtest-regressions --blocks zlib | wc -l
27

 $ ./retry-autopkgtest-regressions --blocks zlib --only-unknown | wc -l
13

[ 10:50AM 10523 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~/source-trees/ubuntu-archive-tools/ubuntu-archive-tools(main✗) ]
 $ ./retry-autopkgtest-regressions --blocks zlib --log-regex "amss.bin" | wc -l
13
[ 10:51AM 10524 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~/source-trees/ubuntu-archive-tools/ubuntu-archive-tools(main✗) ]
 $ ./retry-autopkgtest-regressions --blocks zlib --only-unknown --log-regex "amss.bin" | wc -l
13

The list of packages blocking zlib seems to have changed on me but I still think there is something weird going on here.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Julian indicated that retry-autopkgtest-regressions checks to see what is in the queue and its possible between my first two runs that some stuff got queued.