[needs-packaging] openbios-sparc has no installation candidate

[Ken Sharp]

When installing Qemu through apt-get, openbios-sparc is recommended, but,

Package openbios-sparc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package openbios-sparc has no installation candidate

[Nick Andrik (andrikos)]

openbios-sparc is in Debian, why isn't it in ubuntu?
http://packages.debian.org/sid/openbios-sparc

The same holds for the openbios-ppc package

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

It doesn't look like any openbios-* packages are available on Ubuntu, although they are referenced when installing Qemu.

Can't the packages simply be copied from Debian?

[blueswirl (blauwirbel)]

Packaging problem in Ubuntu, not upstream.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

openbios-sparc is a suggestion rather than a recommendation of the qemu-common package in maverick:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/qemu-common

Marking this bug as fixed released.

[Edmund Watson (edmundwatson)]

openbios-sparc doesn't seem to be ubuntu now. Has it been combined in to another package?
Unfortunately I have had to install qemu manually as I need this package so i can't test that you can virtual a sparc system from ubuntu packages.....

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Both are available in Debian.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openbios

I imagine there's a status page for Ubuntu somewhere showing packaging problems but I wouldn't know where to look for that.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

(Actually PPC is available in Saucy but that's by-the-by anyway)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.