control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hello,
On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:34AM +03, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 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 remove the moreinfo tag when this rdep is gone. -- Sean Whitton
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