Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixed QEMU 1.0.1 support

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:57:23AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/25/2012 06:54 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> >> On 25.09.2012 10:58, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
> >>> This patch fixes incorrect help screen parsing for QEMU 1.0.1 package
> >>> Version line changed from
> >>>     QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> >>> To
> >>>     QEMU emulator version 1.0,1 (qemu-kvm-1.0.1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
> >>
> >> This seems like a bug to me. If it is a micro version number, why is it
> >> delimited with comma instead of dot? If it is not a micro version
> >> number, can we threat it like it is?
> > 
> > I agree, it smells very much like a QEMU/distro bug to me.
> 
> It is an upstream bug:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg02527.html
> 
> Distros should probably be backporting that particular patch, but
> there's still the question of whether we should deal with it in libvirt
> because it is upstream.

Well it is a bug on only one branch of upstream, that was promptly
fixed, so I still don't think we should complicate libvirt by dealing
with it. It is trivial for QEMU maintainers to fix


Daniel
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