On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:04:17PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I have seen you have commit the following change to qemu:
> 
> | commit 1b80d662cdec4e3ed15059a3851e93624b2ef2f4
> | Author: Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org>
> | Date:   Mon Nov 23 16:39:45 2009 -0800
> 
> |     qemu-system: Lower dependencies on vgabios, bochsbios, openhackware,
> |     openbios-ppc and openbios-sparc to recommends. Closes: #436094.
> 
> First of all I am not a big fan of this, especially now that qemu-user
> binaries are in a separate package. This will probably bring us some
> useless bug reports. Now if you are ready to close them as soon as they
> arrive.

this was something a consequence i was thinking i'd try and handle.
 
> Secondly, this will break the upgrades from Lenny, as there is nothing
> anymore to ensure that the BIOS are upgraded to the correct version.
> Using the wrong BIOS version usually causes a crash of QEMU. At least
> the versions in Recommends: should be reverted and move to a 
> Conflicts:.

i didn't take that into consideration.

so either feel free to revert the commit, or possibly just revert the versioned
ones?

in either case, should the bug be marked as wontfix?

live well,
  vagrant



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