[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#637438: libguestfs0: too tight deps

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: libguestfs0
Severity: normal



Hi.

IMHO, libguestfs0 might have too tight dependencies in some places:

1) linux-image-2.6-amd64
Apart from that package being deprecated, this forces one to use that specific
kernel.
And it makes uses custom kernels (e.g. manually compiled, or make-kpkg impossible).

Is this dep really necessary at all??

2) zerofree, febootstrap
Possibly not needed by many users (e.g. this not using ext2/3 and/or not building
supermin appliances).... can't these be just recommends?
Of course the code would need to fail gracefully if they're not there.


Also, are these really required by the lib and not the tools building on it?


Cheers,
Chris.



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