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

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 19:41 +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> I think I'll just drop that dependency.
Fine,.. if it was just to secure the minimum version number... then I
guess this is not so important anyway (given that 3.0 is in unstable).


> febootstrap is needed to build the filesystem that is used to boot the
> VMs which carry out the filesystem operations.

> It seems to me that your second question came from some sort of
> misunderstanding about the library's scope. Maybe it would be a good
> idea to improve the description of the library package. Do you have a
> suggestion?
Uhm.. I thought e.g. guestmount is just for mounting that the VM
images... and therefore one shouldn't e.g. need this.

Anyway it's ok,.. I just asked as it's rarely the case that libs depend
on some normal binaries.


Cheers,
Chris.
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