Package: grub-firmware-qemu Version: 2.02+dfsg1-20 Severity: minor qemu is a dummy metapackage which has no actual reason to exist. Qemu provides 2 entirely different modes of operations, it is a system-level emulation, where qemu emulates whole (hardware) system with its own CPU, memory subsystem, peripherial devices, BIOS/firmware etc. This is qemu-system, or, with hardware assistance, qemu-kvm. And another mode, where it can run linux programs built for different architecture on another linux system, for example to run arm linux binaries on an x86 linux. This is qemu-user and variations.
grub-firmware-qemu enhances the first mode, i.e. system emulation, and has nothing to do with the second, linux-user, emulation of qemu. More, as the package description says, it is appropriate for x86 architecture only. So the right way here is to Recommend/Enhance qemu-system-x86, not whole qemu. The goal is to remove `qemu' binary metapackage from Debian, because this package is not right, it is pulling whole qemu with all its modes of operations, - this is not what most people actually want, due to what's been said above. Thanks, /mjt
