Control: severity -1 minor Control: tag -1 + confirmed 04.07.2015 20:51, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Package: qemu > Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u8 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Trying to install qemu from wheezy-backports fails due to broken dependencies:
> qemu 1:2.1+dfsg-12~bpo70+1 in wheezy-backports depends on qemu-system >= > 1:2.1+dfsg-12~bpo70+1, > which depends on qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-sparc, which depend > respectively on > openbios-ppc >= 1.1+svn1229 and openbios-sparc >= 1.1+svn1229, which are not > available on > wheezy-backports. Firt of all, are you sure you need _all_ of qemu, including all system emulators and all linux-user emulators? Usually you only need one single component, eg qemu-system-x86 or qemu-system-mips or qemu-user. Neither of these will pull openbios. > The source package, openbios 1.1+svn1306-2~bpo70+1, is available on > wheezy-backports but the > binaries are no longer there. It would seem hey once were, as they are > visible on snapshot.debian.org: > > http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/openbios-ppc/ > http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/openbios-sparc/ > > Please consider, if possible, re-uploading those 2 binaries to > wheezy-backports to solve the problem. Hm. I've no idea what happened and why these binaries has been removed. Maybe ftp-masters or backport masters know. At any rate you can install these packages from sid or stretch. They aren't updated often (actually updates are very rare), and they're just self-contained blobs. We upload them to bpo archive just due to bpo limitation, backports can't accept binaries like that without any change. Note the binaries itself (bios code) will be exactly the same. I'll ask around what happened. Meanwhile there's an easy solution, to install these blobs from stretch/sid. Lowering severity because of that. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
