[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#530427: About libguestfs in Debian

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 06:34:15PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> * Guido Günther:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 02:18:11AM +0800, Liang Guo wrote:
> >> Hi, Guido,
> >> 
> >> I found libguestfs git repository[1] has no commit since March, do you
> >> still working on it? What's the current state ?
> >> 
> >> I think libguestfs is interesting, may I help to packaging it ?
> >
> > Yes, having it in Debian would be great. Hilko worked on febootstrap
> > and on libguestfs recently:
> 
> Here's a bit of an update:
> 
> Except for some gnulib-releated test cases that don't work properly, I
> have been able to build packages of 1.10.x.
> 
> Upstream generates some files in debian/ through autoconf/automake, this
> has been a bit of a mess to work around.

We will drop the debian/ directory as soon as it's added to Debian.
It's a pain for us to maintain this too.

> I will try to find some time tonight to straighten out what I have got
> so far and push that to the repository.
> 
> Any help is welcome, of course.

CC to Nikita Menkovich who has been working on the debian/
subdirectory upstream.

Rich.

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