eliminate bochsbios build-dep from qemu-kvm

I'm very hesitant about this. It seems we would pull an entirely separate emulator into main which we don't actually want to support (since we chose qemu). bochs in turn pulls in vgabios, which needs another MIR.

Unless the server team wants to commit to providing explicit support for bochs, I reject this.

However, it does not seem to me that we actually need this. As you already said on the MIR, it seems much better to split bochsbios into its own source package. However, maybe this is not even necessary.

bochsbios only contains three binary blobs and qemu-kvm uses it as a _build_ dependency, not a binary one. I didn't look into kvm, but I suspect it merely copies these bioses into the kvm binary packages at build time? Couldn't you just copy these blobs into the qemu-kvm source package and drop the build dependency entirely?

Might grub-firmware-qemu act as a valid replacement to some of these?

Turns out bochsbios is not a build-dep of qemu-kvm at all.

Sorry for the noise. This bug will be fixed in the next upload of qemu-kvm.

:-Dustin

This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 0.11.0~rc2-0ubuntu2

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qemu-kvm (0.11.0~rc2-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * debian/control: drop bochsbios build-dep; use binary blobs in this
    package since bochs is not in main, LP: #422268
  * debian/install: install qemu-if[up|down] scripts into /etc, where qemu-kvm
    expects them, LP: #376387
  * debian/init: kvm needs /proc, require start of mountkernfs, LP: #391121

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * qemu-arm-static: drop unneeded cd'ing to $OLDPWD from binary-static (how
    did that get there first place?) LP: #425947

  [ Dominic Evans ]
  * debian/qemu-ifdown: add matching ifdown script for bridge configuration,
    LP: #376387

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:12:10 -0500