[Bug 1316829] [NEW] remove /usr/bin/qemu alternative

[Serge Hallyn]

Public bug reported:

/usr/bin/qemu is currently an alternative automatically set up to point
to the 32-bit qemu-system-i386.  The file /usr/bin/qemu did not exist in
precise.  It has been again removed in debian, so remove it from utopic
and trusty.

If a user on x86-64 host runs qemu with a 64-bit iso, the resulting boot failure will be very hard to diagnose.  Therefore, it is better to simply remove it as debian has done.  
(Long term it would be nice to replace it with a wrapper program which runs the right binary based on the running kernel.)

** Affects: qemu (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Description changed:

  /usr/bin/qemu is currently an alternative automatically set up to point
  to the 32-bit qemu-system-i386.  The file /usr/bin/qemu did not exist in
  precise.  It has been again removed in debian, so remove it from utopic
  and trusty.
+ 
+ If a user on x86-64 host runs qemu with a 64-bit iso, the resulting boot failure will be very hard to diagnose.  Therefore, it is better to simply remove it as debian has done.  
+ (Long term it would be nice to replace it with a wrapper program which runs the right binary based on the running kernel.)

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  remove /usr/bin/qemu alternative

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