Bug#825120: gnome-boxes: QEMU is not set as a required dependency

[Francisco Gómez García]

Package: gnome-boxes
Version: 3.20.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: newcomer

I added GNOME Boxes to a new Debian Testing installation and found out that no
virtual machine could be created at all. I quickly found this to be due to the
lack of the necessary QEMU packages on my machine, caused by a bad behaviour on
the gnome-boxes package.

Since QEMU is essential for GNOME Boxes to work and is the only supported
virtualization software, the qemu-system-x86 package should become a dependency
instead of being a recommendation. Otherwise, people may find the program to be
"broken" and might not know how to fix it.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-boxes depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
ii  libarchive13                                 3.1.2-11+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.22-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.34.0-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.48.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.48.1-1
ii  libgovirt2                                   0.3.4-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.20.4-1
ii  libgtk-vnc-2.0-0                             0.5.3-1.3+b1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               230-3
ii  libgvnc-1.0-0                                0.5.3-1.3+b1
ii  libosinfo-1.0-0                              0.2.12-2
ii  libosinfo-bin                                0.2.12-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.40.1-1
ii  librest-0.7-0                                0.7.93-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.54.1-1
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-8                   0.30-1
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-4                    0.30-1
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0                      1.8.0-2+b1
ii  libusb-1.0-0                                 2:1.0.20-1
ii  libuuid1                                     2.28-5
ii  libvirt-daemon                               1.3.3-2
ii  libvirt-glib-1.0-0                           0.2.3-2
ii  libvirt0                                     1.3.3-2
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  mtools                                       4.0.18-2
ii  tracker                                      1.8.0-2+b1

Versions of packages gnome-boxes recommends:
ii  qemu-system-x86  1:2.5+dfsg-5+b1

gnome-boxes suggests no packages.

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