Package: qemu Version: 1:2.8+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The upgrade to the above version pulls in a large number of new packages: # apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcaca0 libsdl1.2debian Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: adwaita-icon-theme dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core glib-networking glib-networking-common glib-networking-services gsettings-desktop-schemas gtk-update-icon-cache hicolor-icon-theme libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libatspi2.0-0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libcolord2 libcroco3 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdconf1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libepoxy0 libfontconfig1 libgbm1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgraphite2-3 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-common libharfbuzz0b libjbig0 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjson-glib-1.0-common liblcms2-2 libnuma1 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpcre2-8-0 libproxy1v5 librest-0.7-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5 libvirglrenderer0 libvte-2.91-0 libvte-2.91-common libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-egl1-mesa libwayland-server0 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-sync1 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxinerama1 libxkbcommon0 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 shared-mime-info xkb-data The following packages will be upgraded: qemu-system-common qemu-system-x86 2 upgraded, 80 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 108 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C On a headless machine, all of the above libraries will be effectively unused, and the number of potential security updates that necessitate a restart of qemu instances is increased significantly. Could you provide package variants for headless servers without GTK? This probably comes (too) late for the stretch release cycle; it’s a bit unfortunate that the switch to GTK (#839695) was made only now. Regards, Peter
