On 08/13/2014 12:35 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Control: tag -1 - patch + confirmed > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > 13.08.2014 20:59, Chris J Arges wrote: >> Package: qemu >> Version: 2.1+dfsg-2 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com >> Usertags: origin-ubuntu utopic ubuntu-patch >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> Please accept this patch which allows kvm_utils to be installed as part >> of the >> qemu-utils package. This utility is useful for getting runtime >> statistics from >> the kvm module. > > kvm_stat utility has been in qemu-kvm package in debian, but it was never > part of qemu packages. Because else it'll conflict with qemu-kvm which is > not a good idea. This is a reason I haven't actually added it in the first > place - I didnt' want to conflict with qemu-kvm, so the two packages can > coexist with each other. That's also why I untagging it as "patch" -- the > supplied one line is not sufficient, we should add proper replaces too, > I'll think about this. Ok so I see that older qemu-kvm packages provide kvm_stat; however the newest qemu-kvm package doesn't: https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/qemu-kvm/filelist
Would this be an issue for users of the newer packages? > > There's also no manpage for kvm_stat - adding it will bring us one more > lintian warning. Can you provide a minimal manpage for this command please? > :) > Sure I can do that. > And besides, why do you think it belongs to qemu-utils? It seems like it > belongs to qemu-system-common instead, -- a helper packge for all qemu-system > targets, where kvm can actually be used. qemu-utils is a bit more generic > than for qemu-system, I think. That's fine, qemu-system-common works for me. > > Thanks, > > /mjt > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
