Migration of packages blocked if (Build-)Depends are missing on some test architectures

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

I was wondering why the package drop-seq was not migrating.  Testing
excuses[1] says

   drop-seq-tools/arm64 has unsatisfiable dependency
   uninstallable on arch *, not running autopkgtest there

While the package itself is

   Architecture: all

it depends from picard-tools which is amd64 only.  Thus the package does
not install on other architectures.  My fix for this problem was now to
restrict the test architectures to amd64 only[2] - hoping that this will
work.

However, in general I think the testing migration should not prevented
for the only reason that debci is trying to install a package on some
architecture where it just can not be installed.  I'd be really happy if
this could be implemented in some way.  Than the workaround[2] would not
be needed any more.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=drop-seq
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/drop-seq/-/commit/3761c4c2dbf500d76f3a3a9aee99200a0eb34916

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