Bug#684934: unblock: qemu-kvm/1.1.1+dfsg-1

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 25.08.2012 12:52, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 00:26:01 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: unblock
>>
>> Please unblock package qemu-kvm
>>
> Feel free to upload, and ping back once it has spent a few days in sid.

Thank you Julien.  Rebuilt, retested briefly, and uploaded.

There's one extra "inter-debdiff" - a change accumulated
since the unblock request, which should be okay:

   * eventfd-making-it-thread-safe.patch - fix a missing
-    ioeventfd notifier (Closes: #680719)
+    ioeventfd notifier (Closes: #680719, #685314)

;)

I'll ping this bug# again in a week or so.

Now, the same set of changes plus a few more fixes (larger
fixes which went into upstream qemu-kvm-1.1.0 but weren't
included into qemu-1.1.0) ineeds to be applied to qemu package
too.  Plus, upstream accumulated a few more fixes (targeting
qemu-1.1.2) - which updates other architectures (which are
not relevant for qemu-kvm package which is x86-only).  And
even more, qemu package needs some extra love currently due
to #684909, which needs changes in s390-tools package and
needs firmware for ppc64.

I waited for the current set of changes (in qemu-kvm) to be
accepted/rejected before proceeding with the next stuff (qemu).
Can you give some comments about all this?  To sum it all up:

 - the same set of changes is needed for qemu too (plus more
   stuff already in qemu-kvm)
 - qemu needs 3 more firmware files for s390 and ppc64, which
   requires introduction of extra Arch-all packages
 - we've more fixes pending upstream for more bugs (mostly
   in non-x86 emulation), and upstream is about to release
   a next bugfix version, 1.1.2

Now I'll try to collect and upload it all at least to
experimental, to see how it all goes.

Thank you for your time!

/mjt