[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1129529: reportbug: virt-install needs cpio but doesn't depend on it

[Allison Karlitskaya]

Package: virt-install
Version: 1:5.1.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

We recently noticed a failure when testing against debian-testing in the
CI for the Cockpit project.  One of our test cases attempts to create a
virtual machine image and fails with a message about cpio not being
available.

The cause appears to be that virt-install requires cpio (it shells out
to it from /usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installerinject.py)
but the package doesn't list it as a dependency (or even a recommends).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages virt-install depends on:
ii  e2fsprogs             1.47.2-3+b8
ii  gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0  1.12.0-3+b1
ii  python3               3.13.9-3
ii  python3-gi            3.54.5-7+b1
ii  python3-libvirt       12.0.0-1
ii  python3-libxml2       2.15.1+dfsg-2+b1
ii  python3-requests      2.32.5+dfsg-1
ii  xorriso               1.5.6-1.2+b2

Versions of packages virt-install recommends:
ii  libvirt-clients  12.0.0-1
ii  qemu-utils       1:10.2.1+ds-1

Versions of packages virt-install suggests:
pn  python3-argcomplete  <none>
pn  virt-viewer          <none>

Versions of packages virt-install is related to:
ii  libvirt-clients  12.0.0-1
ii  libvirt-daemon   12.0.0-1
ii  libvirt0         12.0.0-1
ii  osinfo-db        0.20250606-1

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