#1134872 qemu-system does not exist on 32bit hosts anymore, and qemubuilder depends on it

Package:
qemubuilder
Source:
qemubuilder
Description:
pbuilder using QEMU as backend
Submitter:
Michael Tokarev
Date:
2026-04-26 13:47:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1134872#5
Date:
2026-04-25 10:16:01 UTC
From:
To:
Starting with version 11.0, upstream qemu does not support 32bit hosts
anymore.  In particular, there's no qemu-system-x86 package (or any of
qemu-system-*) on i386 architecture.  But qemubuilder depends on it.

Please drop dependency on qemu-system* on 32bit architectures.  Current
dependency does not let qemu to migrate to testing.

Thanks,

/mjt