[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#614291: Bug#614291: Bug#614291: Unable to establish qemu+ssh connection

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:08:09 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:06:34AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
>> > Actually, I found another bug which is even more interesting: #564034.
>> > There, the netcat-openbsd maintainer (cc:ed) announced that he had
>> > restored the original behavior if -q is not given:
>> > 
>> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> > netcat-openbsd (1.89-4) unstable; urgency=low
>> > 
>> >   * Quit immediately after EOF if -q is not given (i.e. make the default
>> >     equivalent to -q 0). This is the standard upstream behavior and what
>> >     other Linux distributions use. It is different from netcat-traditional,
>> >     but compatibility with other versions of OpenBSD netcat is more
>> >     important. (Closes: #502188)
>> > 
>> >  -- Decklin Foster <decklin at red-bean.com>  Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:05:08 -0400
>> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> > 
>> > So, am I right that we do not need anymore the -q patch if libvirt-bin
>> > and virt-manager depends on netcat-openbsd >= 1.89-4?
>> 
>> No, we still need to support this for interoperability with other Linux
>> distributions. There are lots of people using virt-manager on Debian to
>> manage remote RedHat, SuSE, whatnot.

Last words on this, maybe I am missing something: as far as I understood
(mostly reading the Debian BTS), the -q patch is something *specific* to
Debian (and FWIW non standard), while upstream OpenBSD netcat works out
of the box without that and libvirt.  So if Debian (plus derivatives,
obviously) was the only one with this problem, as it seemed to me, I do
not see how reverting that patch would affect other distributions.

> And we still need -U which is not supported by netcat-traditional.

Yeah, as I wrote in previous emails, I am aware this is another problem.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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