Bug#859599: unblock: qemu/1:2.8+dfsg-4

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Michael Tokarev:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package qemu
> 
> Upstream released a new stable/bugfix version which
> includes many changes we already had in debian
> package, but picked up more accurately (especially
> the 9pfs changes), and includes other bugfixes which
> were found since 2.8.0 release. After careful review
> of the changes upstream released I tend to think it
> is better to have whole set than to cherry-pick from
> a cherry-pick.
> 
> I'd rather follow upstream here than to roll our own
> selection which no one knows how to deal with :)
> 
> [...]
> 
> Please tell me if the whole thing is acceptable
> in principle, or if I should make it easier to
> review somehow.  Or else I'll have to revert the
> changes here and start picking up selected changes
> from upstream stable. Including seabios changes
> in #859417.
> 
> Thank you for your time!
> 
> /mjt
> 
> unblock qemu/1:2.8+dfsg-4
> 
> [...]
> 

Hi Michael,

Please go ahead with this change set and let us know once it has been
built on all relevant release architectures in unstable.

Thanks,
~Niels