On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 11:59:18AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 05.11.2015 22:57, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > 05.11.2015 22:13, dann frazier wrote: > >> Package: qemu > >> Version: 1:2.4+dfsg-4 > >> Severity: wishlist > >> Tags: patch > >> > >> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog > >> index 760b87e..985bd2e 100644 > >> --- a/debian/changelog > >> +++ b/debian/changelog > >> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ > >> +qemu (1:2.4+dfsg-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium > >> + > >> + * control-in: Permit building with older libtool versions to ease > >> + backporting to releases where libtool-bin wasn't yet split out. > > Even with that in place, are you thinking about backorting > current qemu (in stretch) to debian release prior jessie? > Are you targetting wheezy? Note that libtool-bin package is > in jessie already, and backporting qemu to wheezy and before > is a somewhat difficult procedure, since we'll have to backport > all the libvirt stack on the way.
What I'm working on is building a supplementary archive for Ubuntu's cloud archive (read: openstack) for 14.04 for arm64 hosts. This isn't the only change I needed to make, but this is the only one that also applied to Debian. > > Since libcacard package has been split out of qemu, > > libtool isn't needed to build qemu anymore. Next > > release wont build-depend on libtool. > > BTW, the same tweak might be needed for libcacard now, > as it is too build-depends on libtool-bin. But it might > be easier to disable cacard support in backport instead. Ah, ok. Thanks Michael! -dann
