Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo

On 06.11.2012 15:40, Teodor wrote:
> Package: qemu
> Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just had a system crash a few seconds after I removed 'libaio1
> package (declared orphan by deborphan).

What kind of crash?  Crash of what, exactly?  What you were running?

None of qemu-system or qemu-user binaries are linked with libaio.
libaio1 is not used and hence not needed.

Note that qemu package - against which you filed the bugreport -
is a meta-package, it does not use any library at all.

>   On KVM systems this is not
> a problem because its a dependency of qemu-kvm. But on Xen systems
> (+libvirtd) this package is useless and 'qemu' is enough.

Which package is useless?

> I believe 'qemu' should also depend on 'libaio1'.

qemu can be made dependent on libaio1 if it were linked with libaio1.
For this, it needs to contain at least one binary, which it does not.

Note that library dependencies are automatic in debian -- once a binary
is linked with a library, the corresponding dependency is reflected
in the package control information, so the only thing necessary to
do is to actually _use_ the library.

>   Another alternative
> is to add the dependency on 'xen-qemu-dm*' packages.

xen-qemu-dm* packages are not relevant for qemu.

Please describe your issue in a bit more details.  Currently
what you wrote makes no sense, sorry.

/mjt


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