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

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Thu Nov 8 20:26:58 GMT 2018


Hi,
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 12:22:30PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> 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.

Makes sense.
 -- Guido



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