On my jammy machine I ran these steps to confirm the --apt-pocket=proposed option was working lxc launch ubuntu:jammy sru-lp2008026-j lxc exec sru-lp2008026-j bash add "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed main restricted" to /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt update sudo apt-get -t jammy-proposed install autopkgtest # check autopkgtest version /home/ubuntu# apt list --installed | grep autopkgtest WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. autopkgtest/kinetic-proposed,now 5.28ubuntu0.22.10.0 all [installed] exit # on my machine (building image was too slow in container) # Building mantic machine to get proposed version of isc-dhcp package sudo autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -a amd64 -r mantic -s 15G lxc file push autopkgtest-mantic-amd64.img sru-lp2008026-j/ # back to container lxc exec sru-lp2008026-j bash sudo autopkgtest --setup-commands="apt-get update" --apt-pocket=proposed isc-dhcp -- qemu --ram-size=1536 --cpus 2 ./autopkgtest-mantic-amd64.img Relevant output from autopkgtest: Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-proposed/main isc-dhcp 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 (dsc) [2,969 B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-proposed/main isc-dhcp 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 (tar) [10.1 MB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-proposed/main isc-dhcp 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 (asc) [874 B] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-proposed/main isc-dhcp 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 (diff) [129 kB] gpgv: Signature made Thu 11 May 2023 03:13:31 PM BST gpgv: using RSA key D98F377EB47CC6DD257A9A07E564B9C275BDD52E gpgv: Can't check signature: No public key dpkg-source: warning: cannot verify inline signature for ./isc-dhcp_4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2.dsc: no acceptable signature found autopkgtest [12:18:02]: testing package isc-dhcp version 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 rmadison output to match version: rmadison isc-dhcp isc-dhcp | 4.2.4-7ubuntu12 | trusty | source isc-dhcp | 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.12 | trusty-security | source isc-dhcp | 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.13 | trusty-updates | source isc-dhcp | 4.3.3-5ubuntu12 | xenial | source isc-dhcp | 4.3.3-5ubuntu12.9 | xenial-security | source isc-dhcp | 4.3.3-5ubuntu12.10 | xenial-updates | source isc-dhcp | 4.3.5-3ubuntu7 | bionic | source isc-dhcp | 4.3.5-3ubuntu7.4 | bionic-security | source isc-dhcp | 4.3.5-3ubuntu7.4 | bionic-updates | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.1-2.1ubuntu5 | focal | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.1-2.1ubuntu5.20.04.4 | focal-security | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.1-2.1ubuntu5.20.04.5 | focal-updates | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2 | jammy | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2.3 | jammy-security | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2.4 | jammy-updates | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.3-2ubuntu4 | kinetic | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu1 | lunar | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu1 | mantic | source isc-dhcp | 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 | mantic-proposed | source We can see that autopkgtest is fetching version 4.4.3-P1-1ubuntu2 of isc-dhcp from mantic-proposed and testing it