Comment 3 for bug 2021925

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 2021925] Re: Many i386 tests at autopkgtest.ubuntu.com failing on unsatisfiable dependencies

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 12:36:10PM -0000, Paride Legovini wrote:
> The system is far from perfect and apparently i386 tests can still be
> enqueued

If the source package builds Architecture: all binary packages, these are
published in the i386 package index; and britney doesn't know to distinguish
between these packages and Architecture: i386 binaries when deciding whether
to run autopkgtests. It is a bug that we queue tests for Architecture: all
packages on i386, *because*, as a partial arch, these package's dependencies
will always be satisfied using the native arch instead (amd64).

(It is correct to run tests for Architecture: all packages on all the other
archs.)