Re: [PULL 0/5] Final (?) batch of misc patches for QEMU 5.2

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 26/11/20 11:10, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 08:02, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The following changes since commit 8cc30eb1400fc01f2b139cdd3dc524f8b84dbe07:
> >
> >    Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mcayland/tags/qemu-sparc-20201122' 
> > into staging (2020-11-22 15:02:52 +0000)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >    https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to dae3916d846cd88aff038a56b82fa687fd6d02a3:
> >
> >    nsis: Fix build for 64 bit installer (2020-11-25 17:39:12 -0500)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Bug fixes + removing the setuptools dependency
>
> Hi. We've passed rc3 now, so the only things going in should
> be absolutely release-critical bugs that oblige us to put
> out an rc4. That means pull requests need to have more
> explanation and justification of why these are release-critical
> issues; just "bug fixes" isn't enough detail...

The only one that isn't quite release critical is the target/i386 fix 
(though PDEP/PEXT are completely broken without it).  For the rest, two 
patches fix bugs that block Stefan's Win32 builds; the other two remove 
an unnecessary build dependency, and all they do is remove the code to 
check that python setuptools is there.

Paolo