[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#612013: Bug#612013: (network) device enumeration does not work without hal

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sat Feb 26 12:04:58 UTC 2011


reopen 612013
retitle 612013 uses deprecated HAL for network device enumeration
thanks

Am 05.02.2011 18:57, schrieb Guido Günther:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:29:17PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Hi Guido!
>>
>> On 05.02.2011 16:47, Guido Günther wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:34:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> As soon as I install the hal package, my bridge interfaces are visible
>>>> within virt-manager.
>>>
>>> Yes, it's still used for bridge enumeration within virt-manager. I added
>>> a suggests.
>>
>> Given that hal is going away, would it be possible to port it to use udev (or
>> any other mechanism) instead?
>> The only reason why I have to install hal on this KVM server is for libvirt,
>> which is a bit of a heavy weight dep imho.
> Libvirt doesn't use it at all. It's only used by virt-manager but the
> code should indeed be replaced.

I'm going to reopen this bug report.
Given that hal is a deprecated technology and we want to get rid of it in
Debian, adding a mere Suggests on hal is not the way forward.

Please consider updating virt-manager so network device enumeration works
without HAL.

Thanks,
Michael

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