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Daniel Baumann 665688c177
Adding debian version 1:10.0.2+ds-1.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
2025-06-22 14:27:18 +02:00

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qemu (1:9.1.0+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
Since this version, the statically-linked qemu-user binaries from
qemu-user-static package has been moved to qemu-user package,
effectively making it to be what qemu-user-static has been.
There's no dynamically-linked qemu-user binaries anymore, in no
qemu packages provided by Debian. For more information see
#1079603.
When you upgrade from previous version of qemu-user or qemu-user-static
packages, there should be no change in behavour. However, new qemu-user
does not provide binary names with "-static" suffix, for example, an
interpretator for aarch64 is named qemu-aarch64, not qemu-aarch64-static
(the same way it has always been in qemu-user, before this version when
it has become static, and it still is). In order to retain compatibility
with previous version, qemu-user-static package now ships just the
compatibility names (symlinks) with -static suffix.
Also, qemu-user-static now depends on qemu-user-binfmt package, which
just enables binfmt registation of qemu-user binary formats with
binfmt-misc kernel subsystem (the formats themselves are shipped by
qemu-user now, but are not enabled).
If you only need qemu in context of in-kernel binfmt-misc subsystem
(to run foreign binaries automatically), you need just qemu-user-binfmt
package (which also installs qemu-user). In this case, you can safely
remove this qemu-user-static package.
However, if you rely on the naming with -static suffix, you might want to
keep qemu-user-static package installed.
Long term, the intent is to drop this qemu-user-static package, which has
become just a compatibility wrapper around real work done now in qemu-user
and qemu-user-binfmt packages.
-- Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:38:02 +0300