[Bug 1549997] Re: adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud missing dependencies?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 26, 2016, at 06:24 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:

>Suggests: schroot, lxc, lxd-client, qemu-system, qemu-utils
>
>and in the package description:
>
> Depending on which virtualization server you want to use, you need to
> install additional packages (schroot, lxc, lxd, or qemu-system)
>
>autopkgtest has lots of different runners, but I don't want to depend on
>all of qemu, schroot, lxc, lxd as in many cases you really don't
>need/want them all at the same time.
>
>So I'm afraid this error message will have to do for now.

I wonder if more could be done to make the installation of Suggests more
discoverable when this failure occurs.  I can understand not wanting to Depend
on a ton of things that many people won't need, but when the failure does
occur, it's not so easy to figure out how to fix the situation.  Maybe print
something to stderr?

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Title:
  adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud missing dependencies?

Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  On a relatively fresh install of Xenial:

  $  adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -v
  WARNING: python-distro-info not installed, falling back to determining default release from currently installed release
  ERROR: QEMU command qemu-system-x86_64 not found

  the latter appears to be in qemu-system-x86.  Is that a missing
  dependency?

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