FTBFS: karmic qemu on non-x86 arches

[Marcus Comstedt]

Binary package hint: qemu

The qemu package has been replaced with a "transitional package" from qemu-kvm in karmic.
This makes no sense on non-x86 systems, where qemu-kvm can never work. Please restore
the regular qemu package for these architectures again.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

You are looking for qemu-kvm-extras.

Perhaps we'll rename this qemu in Lucid.

:-Dustin

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

I think the reporter is referring to running QEmu on other architectures, not using QEmu to emulate other architectures.

It used to build on all the other archs:

   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/0.10.0-1ubuntu1

[Marcus Comstedt (marcus-mc)]

Correct, I'm talking about host OS != x86, not target OS != x86.
Sorry if this was unclear.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Got it, thanks. I'm updating the title appropriately.

[Marcus Comstedt (marcus-mc)]

Any progress on this?

The 0.10.0-1ubuntu1 source package still compiles and runs under karmic, so just republishing it would be an improvement over the current situation. Of course, getting 0.11 or 0.12 would be even nicer...

[Marcus Comstedt (marcus-mc)]

In lucid, the qemu-kvm package builds on all architectures, which fixes the problem.