virt-manager is uninstallable on non x86 arches

[Chris J Arges]

SRU Justification:
[Impact]
Users of virt-manager on non-x86 graphical systems won't be able to install the package.
[Test Case]
sudo apt-get install virt-manager
[Fix]
Move arch dependencies to recommends.

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$ sudo apt-get install virt-install
sudo: unable to resolve host peachy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package virt-install
ubuntu@peachy:~$ sudo apt-get install virt-manager
sudo: unable to resolve host peachy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 virt-manager : Depends: gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0 but it is not installable
                Recommends: libvirt-bin (>= 0.4.6) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: python-spice-client-gtk but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. This doesn't seem to be happening to me. Could you please show the result of "apt-cache show virt-manager libvirt-bin gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0" ?

If you do

"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -f", what is the recommended solution?

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

This moves the arch dependencies from Depends to Recommends. I've tested this build on my armhf system and it installs fine.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Also submitted the patch to Debian for review.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks Chris, looks good to me. Mark, do you want to push this to vivid, or wait and merge it from Debian?

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Serge,

The debian maintainer proposed a better patch here:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-libvirt/virt-manager.git/commit/?id=10067886d1778407b70f812c405ceb3c3a868d7c

I'll work on using this one for the SRU instead.
I'm ok with waiting for the merge from Debian as well if it makes more sense.

--chris

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Awaiting merge from debian

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Verified that this is working after the merge from Debian on armhf.