Boxes should recommend qemu-kvm-spice not qemu-kvm

[Jeremy Bícha]

GNOME Boxes is a simple app to access remote or virtual machines and is basically a SPICE frontend. Unlike in Debian, Ubuntu's qemu-kvm was not compiled with spice support. On Ubuntu, gnome-boxes should instead recommend qemu-kvm-spice which does have the spice support.

Patch attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-boxes 3.4.2+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.7-generic 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 201084ed41ea7548f8becd47fa4d1e6c
CheckboxSystem: c541d13ea4f205f2fd751f76ed21105b
Date: Fri May 25 20:40:54 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-boxes - 3.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1

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gnome-boxes (3.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Recommend qemu-kvm-spice instead of just qemu-kvm (LP: #1004776)
 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sat, 26 May 2012 16:26:09 -0400

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Uploaded.

As you're an uploader in Debian, what's the chance of using dpkg-vendor to generate this at build time so we don't have to keep merging this?

Something like, in debian/rules:

ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu && echo yes),yes)
 DEB_DH_GENCONTROL_ARGS_ALL = -- -Vdist:Recommends="qemu-kvm-spice"
else
 DEB_DH_GENCONTROL_ARGS_ALL = -- -Vdist:Recommends="qemu-kvm"
endif

And in debian/control{.in}:

Recommends: ${dist:Recommends}

Thanks!

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I couldn't figure out how to do that before. Thanks, Andrew!