Bug#774185: libsys-virt-perl: Relax dependency on libvirt-bin to recommends

Daniel Gröber dxld at darkboxed.org
Tue Dec 30 00:03:46 UTC 2014


Package: libsys-virt-perl
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

right now libsys-virt-perl declares a hard dependency on libvirt-bin
which is rather silly since libvirt supports accessing remote daemons
via the network so why should this library depend on the deamon anyways?

This is not only an inconvinience but could also result in security
issues for users unknowingly installing an autostarting daemon even
though they just tried to install libguestfs-tools for example (which
is the problem I ran into).

So I propose at least downgrading the dependency on libvirt-bin to a
Recomends so users can choose not to install the daemon.

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)



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