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

[David Brown]

Thanks, I was not aware of this! I removed the unneeded packages.

On 8/28/25 10:01 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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

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