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qemu (1:2.6+dfsg-1ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:  (LP: #1583775)
    - debian/rules: do not drop the init scripts loading kvm modules
      (still needed in precise in cloud archive)
    - qemu-system-common.postinst:
      * remove acl placed by udev, and add udevadm trigger.
      * reload kvm_intel if needed to set nested=1
    - qemu-system-common.preinst: add kvm group if needed
    - add qemu-kvm upstart job and defaults file (rules,
      qemu-system-x86.qemu-kvm.default, qemu-system-x86.qemu-kvm.upstart)
    - rules,qemu-system-x86.modprobe: support use under older udevs which
      do not auto-load the kvm kernel module.  Enable nesting by default
      on intel.
    - d/p/ubuntu/expose-vmx_qemu64cpu.patch: enable nested kvm by default
      in qemu64 cpu type.
    - d/p/ubuntu/define-ubuntu-machine-types.patch: define distro machine
      types to ease future live vm migration.
    - apport hook for qemu source package: d/source_qemu-kvm.py,
      d/qemu-system-common.install
    - Make qemu-system-common and qemu-utils depend on qemu-block-extra
      to fix errors with missing block backends. (LP: #1495895)
    - s390x:
      * Create qemu-system-s390x package
      * Enable pie by default, on ubuntu/s390x.
      * Enable svm by default for qemu64 on amd
      * Include s390-ccw.img firmware
      * have qemu-system-aarch64 Suggest: qemu-efi; this should be a stronger
        relationship, but qemu-efi is still in universe right now.
  * Drop patches which have been applied upstream:

qemu (1:2.6+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * new upstream release
   Closes: #799115
   Closes: #822369, #823588
   Closes: #813698
   Closes: #805827
   Closes: #813585
   Closes: #823830 CVE-2016-3710 CVE-2016-3712
   Closes: #813193 CVE-2016-2198
   Closes: #813194 CVE-2016-2197
   Closes: #815008 CVE-2016-2392
   Closes: #815009 CVE-2016-2391
   Closes: #815680 CVE-2016-2538
   Closes: #821038 CVE-2016-4001
   Closes: #822344 CVE-2016-4037
   Closes: #817181 CVE-2016-2841
   Closes: #817182 CVE-2016-2857
   Closes: #817183 CVE-2016-2858
   - removed all patches applied upstream
   - removed mjt-set-oem-in-rsdt-like-slic.diff, feature has been
     implemented in upstream differently
   - refreshed local patches
  * do not recommend sharutils for qemu-utils anymore (Closes: #820449)
  * typo fix in qemu-system-misc description (Closes: #822883)
  * allow qemu-debootstrap to create mips64el chroot (Closes: #817234)
  * switch VCS URLs from http to https (lintian)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8 (no changes)
  * code spelling fixes from upstream
  * added s390x-virtio-ccw-fix-spelling.patch from upstream
  * added hw-ipmi-fix-spelling.patch from upstream
  * added docs-specify-spell-fix.patch from upstream
  * added fsdev-spelling-fix.patch from upstream
  * fold long list of supported arches in package descriptions

 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>  Thu, 19 May 2016 12:11:36 -0500

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