[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1137419: cockpit-machines depends on libvirt-daemon-system which is not available on 32bit architectures anymore due to qemu dropped support for 32bit hosts

[Michael Tokarev]

On 29.05.2026 09:23, Martin Pitt wrote:

>> And for arch-all package, things are different.  In particular, you
>> don't adjust the package when arch-specific dependencies changes.
>> Instead, it is the autopkgtest system which just omits testing this
>> package once the dependencies disappears on some architectures.
> 
> So you are saying it didn't actually block anything? Indeed I couldn't find a
> blocker.

Yes it didn't.  Things here are a bit shady though, hence my confusion.
When I looked at the tracker.d.o pages, it's been said there that
"updating libvirt package will make cockpit-machines:i386 uninstallable"
(or something close to that, I don't remember the exact wording).  So I
assumed cockpit-machines is arch:any and with dependency on libvirt.

However, this was due to a cruft left in testing still, - the migration-
blockers scripts see that cruft (libvirt:i386, qemu:i386) and decides
the new packages wont work.

Now, cruft has been removed, libvirt is clean, and nothing is blocking
its migration anymore.

>> Please excuse me for all this noise and for your attention.  I filed
>> this bug report entirely by mistake.
> 
> No worries! If anything, it at least helped to spot that libvirt packaging
> bug, i.e. the daemon should continue to be available on all arches, just not
> depend on -qemu on 32 bit.
> 
>> Closing this bug now.
> 
> It raced with my upload.
> 
>> Please don't rush anything here.  Your package is fine.
> 
> OK! I'll revert the architecture change.

Yes, thank you very much!  I didn't want you to do any of that,
obviously :)

/mjt