** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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QEMU packages have circular dependencies
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Hi,
these have indeed been updated already.
I was working with Michael and others which were the reasons some here were
hard dependes and we have now for 22.04:
a) the dependencies from qemu-system-* to q-b-e are recommends now
b) we also include 15bf92b5 which allows qemu-utils to satisfy the
I hope this fix[1] will be released in Ubuntu 22.04 soon.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-
team/qemu/-/commit/15bf92b50ca51e078575587bf0f26085d1ecbf88
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Oh wow!!! :)
Just as I said, q-b-e should also list qemu-utils as one of the
alternatives. This is the problem here, not the long list of other
alternatives you're trying to remove, but the single alternative - qemu-
utils - which is missing here. This one I'll fix right away. That's
really an
Actually this is fixed quite long time ago (but not in any released
stable version), in this commit:
commit 15bf92b50ca51e078575587bf0f26085d1ecbf88
Author: Michael Tokarev
Date: Wed Aug 18 16:43:23 2021 +0300
d/control: reformat Depends for qemu-block-extra, do not include -xen
version
The point that really concerns me is the disk usage. I just want to
install qemu-utils, not qemu-system-x86.
In my opinion qemu-utils and qemu-system-x86 are applications and qemu-
block-extra are libraries. Applications depend on libraries, but not
vice versa.
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nope, you're wrong.
qemu-block-extra is a set of plugins. This package is useless without one of
the other binary packages which can load these plugins. This is one of
qemu-system-foo, AND qemu-utils - that's the set of packages q-b-e should
depend on in order to actually work. And speaking of
The attachment "0001-remove-circular-dependencies.patch" seems to be a
patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment,
remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-
reviewers, unsubscribe the team.
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** Patch added: "0001-remove-circular-dependencies.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1961645/+attachment/5562608/+files/0001-remove-circular-dependencies.patch
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