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[Bug 1830823] Re: Ubuntu image builds broken for powerpc on xenial

To: group.of.nepali.translators@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 16:35:22 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1830823 <1830823@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Since snaps are not supported on powerpc, it also doesn't make sense to
have an ubuntu-image package that depends on snapd on this architecture.
It is still potentially interesting to have ubuntu-image available on
all archs for the 'ubuntu-image classic' use case, so in terms of
overall direction I think it's better to have ubuntu-image drop its dep
on snapd on powerpc and NOT have livecd-rootfs drop its dep on ubuntu-
image on powerpc, in addition to having snapd available again on powerpc
as a dummy package.

It is very unlikely that we will ever SRU back to xenial any support for
actual ubuntu-image classic images on powerpc, but just in case this
would future-proof it.

** Also affects: snapd (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-image (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Ubuntu image builds broken for powerpc on xenial

Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-image package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in snapd source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in ubuntu-image source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  livecd-rootfs is used to build our Ubuntu images and it depends on ubuntu-image.  With ubuntu-image 1.7 being published to xenial-updates the diff 
  shows that the versioned dependency on snapd was bumped to >= 2.38; which is not satisfiable on powerpc because snapd is not buildable on powerpc with gccgo (vs golang).

  This affects xenial cloud image builds.

  
  Original description:

  This commit https://git.launchpad.net/livecd-
  rootfs/commit/debian/control?h=ubuntu/xenial&id=b8b2e343827adb9020d5b71f232c0361bd72685f
  added a depends on ubuntu-image but that package is not available on
  xenial for powerpc.  So powerpc image builds are failing. :(

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