Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-1exp Severity: serious Hi
Since version 0~20121205.edae8d2d-2, ovmf is no longer available in
Debian/main, due to a license addendum that makes the embedded FAT
driver non-free. qemu-system-x86 however started to recommend this
package starting with 2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-1exp, including the current
version 2.0.0+dfsg-3.
While offering UEFI support for qemu-system-x86 is a nice feature,
a package in main "must not require or recommend a package outside
of main for compilation or execution" (Debian Policy ยง2.2.1[1]).
I have chosen "serious" as bug severity, as this breaks a
must-directive of the policy and in order to prevent qemu 2.0~ from
migration to testing. This also creates practical problems, as
recommends are installed by default and the ovmf dependency is not
satisfiable without non-free being available.
Suggesting a non-free package however avoids this problem.
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main
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