16.12.2018 20:44, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
Source: qemu Version: 1:3.1+dfsg-1
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That should allow to install the qemu-guest-agent package on bare metal machine or a VM not using virtio. ATM the package fails to install because of this. I set the severity of this bug to importent as this package is not often used and the description contains a disclaimer telling it should run in a guest, but in reallity it should be RC.
Why this should be an RC bug? Isn't it an error to install a package on a configuration where it isn't supposed to be installed? To me it is kind of like installing a foreign-architecture package on a CPU which is not supposed to understand these instructions. Do we need to ensure all packages should be _installable_ on all configurations, including some strange variations like this? Yes I understand a rather specific use case, at least one - to prepare an image using, say, debootstrap, on a physical machine (on host) to run it in a guest. But is it that important for this bug to be RC? Thanks, /mjt
