eliminate bochsbios build-dep from qemu-kvm
Bug #422268 reported by
Chuck Short
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: bochs
bochbios is a build dependency of qemu-kvm it should be in main:
https:/
If you have any questions let me know.
Regards
chuck
Related branches
Changed in bochs (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in bochs (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
Changed in bochs (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Martin Pitt (pitti) → Chuck Short (zulcss) |
Changed in bochs (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → In Progress |
assignee: | Chuck Short (zulcss) → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
summary: |
- MIR for bochbios + eliminate bochsbios build-dep from qemu-kvm |
affects: | bochs (Ubuntu) → qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
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I'm very hesitant about this. It seems we would pull an entirely separate emulator into main which we don't actually want to support (since we chose qemu). bochs in turn pulls in vgabios, which needs another MIR.
Unless the server team wants to commit to providing explicit support for bochs, I reject this.
However, it does not seem to me that we actually need this. As you already said on the MIR, it seems much better to split bochsbios into its own source package. However, maybe this is not even necessary.
bochsbios only contains three binary blobs and qemu-kvm uses it as a _build_ dependency, not a binary one. I didn't look into kvm, but I suspect it merely copies these bioses into the kvm binary packages at build time? Couldn't you just copy these blobs into the qemu-kvm source package and drop the build dependency entirely?