• Bug#1102480: kiwi-dracut-oem-dump is not installable on riscv64

    From Adrian Bunk@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 9 14:10:01 2025
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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Adrian Bunk on Wed Apr 9 14:40:01 2025
    Hi Adrian,

    On Wed, 2025-04-09 at 15:04 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kiwi

    Issues preventing migration:
    ∙ ∙ kiwi-dracut-oem-dump/riscv64 has unsatisfiable dependency


    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    kiwi-dracut-oem-dump : Depends: kexec-tools but it is not installable

    I'm aware of this, but there is not much I can do about it.

    I would consider it rather release-critical that an architecture doesn't
    have suppot for kexec rather than a package depending on kexec-tools.

    This is due to #1019254

    I'm aware of this bug. But despite it's popular support, no one in the riscv64 community seems to be interested in actually adding kexec support there.

    Adrian

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