[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#595320: libvirt-bin: default /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf does not reflect true defaults

[Ben Hartshorne]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: normal

The default /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf has the following lines:
# The user ID for QEMU processes run by the system instance
#user = "root"

# The group ID for QEMU processes run by the system instance
#group = "root"

That they are commented out implies that they contain the default values.

The default values are actually
user = "libvirt-qemu"
group = "kvm"

(actual defaults gleaned from the debian/rules file:
DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS :=     \
        --disable-rpath          \
        --with-qemu              \
        --with-qemu-user=libvirt-qemu  \
        --with-qemu-group=kvm    \
)

The configuration file should have the actual defaults commented out.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112          add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3          0.6.26-1       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3          0.6.26-1       Avahi common library
ii  libblkid1                 2.17.2-3.1     block device id library
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap-ng0                0.6.4-1        An alternate posix capabilities li
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.48-3    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11               1.4.5-2        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26               2.8.6-1        the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libnl1                    1.1-5          library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libparted0debian1         2.3-1          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0             0.12.0-1       Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libreadline6              6.1-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-5 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0                  160-1          libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-3.1     Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0                  0.8.3-1        library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0            4.0.1~rc6-1    Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2                   2.7.7.dfsg-4   GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate                 3.7.1-5        Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils              1.4-5          Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  dnsmasq-base              2.55-1         A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  gawk                      1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  iptables                  1.4.2-6        administration tools for packet fi
ii  libxml2-utils             2.7.7.dfsg-4   XML utilities
ii  netcat-openbsd            1.89-4         TCP/IP swiss army knife
pn  qemu-kvm | qemu           <none>         (no description available)

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit-1                   <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information