[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#889885: reassign to qemu?

dann frazier dannf at dannf.org
Thu Nov 8 19:22:30 GMT 2018


I think virt-manager maybe too high up the stack for this
dependency. I mean, it doesn't depend on seabios either - but that
gets installed through the dependency chain. It also isn't possible
for an architecture-independent package to depend on the correct EFI
firmware package for the target architecture (e.g. x86 wants ovmf, but
arm64 wants qemu-efi-aarch64).

I propose we reassign this to qemu, and ask that:
 1) qemu-system-x86 bump the ovmf relationship from suggests to
   recommends. I wonder if the "suggests" decision was made back when
   edk2 was non-free?
 2) qemu-system-arm replace the "qemu-efi" recommends with both
    "qemu-efi-aarch64, qemu-efi-arm". qemu-efi is now just a dummy
    package that depends on qemu-efi-aarch64.

 -dann



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