[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#529282: Bug#529282: Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:48:00AM +1200, Paul Collins wrote:
> > It checks for it to get the binary paths.
> 
> I'm sorry, but that's really silly.  Why doesn't it build-dep on kvm,
> for example, to make sure it still lives in /usr/bin/kvm?
It checks for several (iscsiadm, parted, ...) but not all of the needed
binaries. That should probably be fixed.

> 
> > A package not being installable is a bad excuse to remove the build-dep.
> 
> It's not so much an excuse to remove the build-dep as an explanation of
> why I noticed it in the first place.
Removing it for local builds is perfectly fine. It's just that I don't
want remove it from libvirt because openiscsi is broken in some way.
Cheers,
 -- Guido