[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#543810: Bug#543810: Bug#543810: Uninstallable on quite some arches due to missing dependency

[Laurent Léonard]

Le vendredi 28 août 2009 à 07:55, Luk Claes a écrit :
> Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:47:46AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> >> Package: virt-what
> >> Version: 1.1-1
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Please add dmidecode to Build-Depends so the package only gets built on
> >> architectures where it is available.
> >
> > virt-what is usable without dmidecode. Current git reflects this
> > properly already.
>
> Ok, so you made sure it only recommends dmidecode?

I'm not sure adding dmidecode as "Recommends" is the right way because all the 
supported virtualisation technologies supports x86 guests, so dmidecode is 
*required* to detect *all* the virtualisation technologies on x86 
architectures.

Other architectures (unsupported by dmidecode) are supported by virtualisation 
technologies that doesn't need dmidecode to be detected by the guest (except 
perhaps UML for which I recently introduced support upstream).

There is no ideal solution, but I think that's the best one.

-- 
Laurent Léonard
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