[Bug 1887191] Re: autopkgtest always fail on i386 for f and later

[Steve Langasek]

Also, there are NOT thousands of packages in the same situation as
systemd.  systemd is a whitelisted package which is still built on i386,
which has tests that can't be run (because we run our autopkgtests on
amd64 and apt will not allow you to switch from an amd64 systemd to an
i386 systemd noninteractively).  There are only a handful of packages in
this situation, all of which have had hints added manually to ignore
their test results on i386.

The more general class of problem, that test failures are treated as
regressions which should not be, is tracked as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/britney/+bug/1700668

** Changed in: auto-package-testing
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  autopkgtest always fail on i386 for f and later

Status in Auto Package Testing:
  Invalid
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  [impact]

  all autopkgtest runs fail for i386 arch for focal and later, since
  i386 is no longer a fully supported arch; the test run fails due to
  missing test deps.

  this is super annoying.

  [test case]

  run autopkgtest for i386 for f or g or later.

  [regression potential]

  as this only disables/skips all testing on i386 for f and later, any
  regression would likely cause incorrectly failed or skipped
  autopkgtests for non-i386 archs.

  [scope]

  this is needed for f and later.

  i386 is a fully supported arch for b and earlier.

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