Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Package sgabios provides a variant of x86 BIOS/firmware. It was only used by qemu system emulation in Debian. The upstream development stopped many years ago, and now it is maintained within the only its user, qemu, and is built from qemu sources too (qemu-system-data package, /usr/share/qemu/sgabios.bin). Package sgabios is not useful by its own.
While it does not really hurt, I guess, to keep this package in the archive, I also don't see a reason for that. sgabios has rather high numbers on the popcon data. This is because it's been suggested by qemu for quite some time. Also this package is in Depends: of libguestfs0. This is okay, since qemu-system-data provides sgabios (and conflicts with it), so the dependency is satisfied by qemu-system-data which is a required dependency of qemu-system-x86 anyway. I filed a bugreport for libguestfs0 to remove the explicit dependency on sgabios, which is #966596 , but it is completely optional due to this Provides. Please consider removing sgabios from unstable. Thanks, /mjt
