[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#540749: virt-manager: how do we enhance interoperability

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

X-Debbugs-Cc: rrs at researchut.com                                                                                              
Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.7.0-4+b1  
Severity: normal     

The current version of virt-manager in Debian, when connecting to a
Fedora 11 KVM VM, gives a very mis-leading error message.          
Attached screenshot with this bug report explains it.              

How does one mitigate such problems?
All distributions almost share the same common codebase but still can't
guarantee interoperability.                                            

In this case, the version of netcat shipped in Debian supports "-q",
where as the version in Fedora doesn't.                             
I know I'm using testing/squeeze and this might be expected, but then
how do we fix it. Is there any LSB compliance by the distributions ? 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-custom (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.26.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.9-23      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                    1.8.6-2+b1  The Cairo 2D vector graphics 
libra
ii  libfontconfig1               2.6.0-4     generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                 2.3.9-4.1   FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.20.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.16.1-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  librsvg2-common              2.26.0-1    SAX-based renderer library for 
SVG
ii  python-dbus                  0.83.0-1    simple interprocess messaging 
syst
ii  python-glade2                2.14.1-3    GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                2.26.1-1    Python bindings for the GNOME 
desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc               0.3.8-2     A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ 
(Pyth
ii  python-gtk2                  2.14.1-3    Python bindings for the GTK+ 
widge
ii  python-libvirt               0.6.4-1     libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-urlgrabber            3.1.0-4     A high-level cross-protocol url-
gr
ii  python-vte                   1:0.20.5-1  Python bindings for the VTE 
widget
ii  python2.5                    2.5.4-1     An interactive high-level object-
o
ii  virtinst                     0.500.0-1   Programs to create and clone 
virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  hal          0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
pn  libvirt-bin  <none>                      (no description available)

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  virt-viewer                   0.0.3-2    Displaying the graphical console 
o

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-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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