[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#966596: please do not depend on sgabios

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Fri Jul 31 09:26:45 BST 2020


Package: libguestfs0
Version: 1:1.42.0-6
Severity: minor

sgabios these days is provided by qemu-system-data package, which is a dependency
of qemu-system-x86 which is a required package for libguestfs. There's no need
for libguestfs0 to depend on sgabios separately.

Setting severity to `minor' because explicit dependency does not really hurt,
it gets satisfied by qemu-system-data anyway. But it'd be nice to tidy this up.

The talk is about the sid/testing version, since in buster the dependency is
actually needed in this case, in buster sgabios was entirely optional while
in next release it is an integral part of qemu and is always available with
qemu-system-x86.

Thanks,

/mjt



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