On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:17:47AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > reassign 436094 qemu-systemm > tags 644629 -patch > merge 644629 436094 > thanks > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 05:09:59PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > while having all emulated systems work out of the box is great is makes > > backporting harder and many users don't need all types of emulators. > > It'd be great if the firmware/bios packages would be recommends. > > Cheers, > > this is already reported in http://bugs.debian.org/644629, and i had tried > it... unfortunately, this didn't handle upgrades well > (http://bugs.debian.org/573397), so i reverted it in version 0.12.3+dfsg-2: > > qemu (0.12.3+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * qemu-system: Switch back to using versioned dependencies for vgabios, > bochsbios, openhackware, openbios-ppc and openbios-sparc rather than > recommends/conflicts, to ensure a proper upgrade path. Closes: #573397. > Reopens: #436094. > > > i think the only way to handle this well would be to further split > qemu-system so that each package could only depend on the minimal sub-set of > bios packages. this is requested in: http://bugs.debian.org/636000
Adding proper Breaks: to bochsbios might help too. Thanks for the prompt reply. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
