[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1112273: qemu-system: rpc-libvirtd segfaults in combination with qemu 10.1.0+ds-1

[Michael Tokarev]

Control: found -1 11.3.0-3+b1

On 28.08.2025 10:48, David Brown wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> On 8/28/25 9:39 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Control: reassign -1 src:libvirt
>> Control: affects -1 src:qemu
>>
>> On 28.08.2025 09:46, Anonymous wrote:
>>> Package: qemu-system
>>> Version: 1:10.1.0+ds-1
>>> Severity: important
>>> X-Debbugs-Cc: dbrown at schutzwerk.com
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> after upgrading today I received the following qemu-* packages:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> You most likely don't need all these packages, as you seems to
>> only using x86 version.  It should be enough to install just
>> qemu-system-x86, and maybe qemu-utils.  But this is unrelated
>> to your bug report.
> 
> I would agree, however, removing, for example, qemu-system-mips would 
> also remove qemu-system for me.

Sure, - qemu-system is an emtpy meta-package which just depends on all
of qemu-system-* variants -- it's here since old days when there was
single qemu-system package with all qemu system emulators, rather huge -
later on I split it into separate families, and most of the time only
one family is used.  You don't need qemu-system, just particular family
of it.

Hopefully all packages which use qemu (like libvirt) has proper
dependency - on particular family of qemu-system or on qemu-system-any.

Thanks,

/mjt