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

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 23 May 2016 21:37:32 +0200
=?utf-8?q?Francisco_G=C3=B3mez_Garc=C3=ADa?= <espectalll at kydara.com> wrote:
> 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.

People who disable Recommends should know what they are doing.


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