#1129529 reportbug: virt-install needs cpio but doesn't depend on it

#1129529#5
Date:
2026-03-02 14:56:02 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

We recently noticed a failure when testing against debian-testing in the
CI for the Cockpit project.  One of our test cases attempts to create a
virtual machine image and fails with a message about cpio not being
available.

The cause appears to be that virt-install requires cpio (it shells out
to it from /usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installerinject.py)
but the package doesn't list it as a dependency (or even a recommends).