[arch-dev-public] News draft: QEMU >= 7.0.0 may need manual intervention

[David Runge]

Hi all,

with qemu 7.0.0 now in [staging] we have a more extensive split package
setup (see accompanying TODO [1]). Under certain circumstances this will
require manual intervention (or rather a specific upgrade) to regain the
previous functionality:

```
With the update to qemu 7.0.0 the package has been turned into a more
fine grained split package.

The `qemu` package now only carries a few common files and tracks all of
its leaf packages as optional dependencies.

Much of the previous summarized functionality is now available via meta
packages:

* The functionality of `qemu` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by
  `qemu-desktop` (**the transition to this package is manual**!)
* The functionality of `qemu-headless` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by
  `qemu-base` (the transition to this package is automatic).
* The functionality of `qemu-arch-extra` and `qemu-headless-arch-extra`
  prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by `qemu-emulators-full` (the transition to
  this package is automatic).

Furthermore, the meta package `qemu-full` provides all qemu related
packages (excluding `qemu-docs`).

As such, users that relied on the functionality of the `qemu` package
prior to 7.0.0 should update using `sudo pacman -Syu qemu-desktop`.
```

Best,
David

[1] https://archlinux.org/todo/qemu-700-packaging-changes/

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