[needs-packaging] [Ubuntu 15.04] Include latest Kimchi released upstream

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Kimchi (a user-friendly HTML5 management interface for KVM guests) is currently not included in Ubuntu.

Currently, the latest available version upstream is Kimchi 1.3. The .deb package is available from the community at http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/kimchi-1.3.0-0.noarch.deb.

Kimchi 1.4 is planned to be released on 2014-12, and Kimchi 1.5 is planned to be released on 2014-03.

The deb file provided by Kimchi has qemu-kvm as its dependency. It seems that for ppc64el this package doesn't exists: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/1392781

We have two options: remove the dependency for ppc64el or provide it for the next Ubuntu release.

Kimchi requires that QEMU with KVM support is installed. In other distros that usually means a qemu-kvm package is installed. I thought that was true for Ubuntu as well, as this .deb package is tested by the Kimchi community.

I think if you look at the above launchpad bug, discussion going on there on how to handle, as kimchi may not be the only one with that explicit dependency..

As far as I remember qemu-kvm package is essential to Kimchi runs properly.
I checked my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86 system and this package is also required by libvirt-bin which is also essential for Kimchi.

Reverse Depends:
  kimchi
    qemu-kvm:i386
  libvirt-bin
    qemu-kvm:i386

qemu-kvm package provides /usr/bin/kvm which is important for qemu compatibilitiy according to its man page:

"The kvm wrapper script is used to provide compatibility with old qemu-kvm package which has been merged into qemu as of version 1.3.

The script executes
      qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm
passing all other command-line arguments to the qemu binary. This is not the same as old kvm binary, which was using less strict construct, similar to
      qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm:tcg
New wrapper ensures that kvm mode is enabled, or the VM will not start, while old code falled back to emulation (tcg) mode if kvm isn't available."

Fred just finished the debianization and send the ITP to Debian.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772823

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[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

For the record, qemu-kvm exists on all arches in vivid. If this is a request to include kimchi in already-release stable releases (trusty and/or utopic), then we'd need to backport that fix (which was planned anyway).

[Diane Brent (drbrent)]

Adam - this is not for the SRu streams. Request is for 15.04 Vivid only.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

kimchi uploaded. Now awaiting archive admin NEW review.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

@Frédéric: I tweaked debian/changelog to include this LP bug reference. You might want to import the change so it doesn't get confused in future updates. You can see the package in the NEW queue here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+queue

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

kimchi 1.5.0 is included in Ubuntu 15.10 and later.