[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#681889: libguestfs0 has too many dependencies?

[Thomas Koch]

Package: libguestfs0
Version: 1:1.18.1-1
Severity: normal

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Hi,

I just wanted to access a qcow2 file and after selecting libguestfs0 for
installation I was forced to install vim! This is insulting for an emacs user!

Not enough with that. During the installation of a simple(?) C library,
febootstrap started to download the internet again.

Seriously. The dependency list of libguestfs0 is very surprising. Could you
please check whether libguestfs0 could be split up in smaller binary packages
with only minimal dependencies? If that shouldn't be possible (how?), could you
please add a short explanation of the dependencies in the package description
and a longer one in a README.Debian?

Thank you!

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libguestfs0 depends on:
ii  binutils               2.22-6.1
ii  bsdmainutils           9.0.3
ii  btrfs-tools            0.19+20120328-7
ii  cpio                   2.11-8
ii  cryptsetup             2:1.4.3-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.44
ii  diffutils              1:3.2-6
ii  dosfstools             3.0.13-1
ii  febootstrap            3.17-1
ii  file                   5.11-1
ii  icoutils               0.29.1-5
ii  iproute                20120521-3
ii  jfsutils               1.1.15-2
ii  libaugeas0             0.10.0-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-33
ii  libhivex0              1.3.6-2
ii  libmagic1              5.11-1
ii  libpcre3               1:8.30-5
ii  libvirt0               0.9.12-3
ii  libxml2                2.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  lsof                   4.86+dfsg-1
ii  lvm2                   2.02.95-4
ii  module-init-tools      8-2
ii  net-tools              1.60-24.1
ii  netpbm                 2:10.0-15+b1
ii  ntfs-3g                1:2012.1.15AR.5-2
ii  parted                 2.3-10
ii  procps                 1:3.3.3-2
ii  qemu-kvm               1.0+dfsg-11
ii  reiserfsprogs          1:3.6.21-1
ii  scrub                  2.4.1-1
ii  strace                 4.5.20-2.3
ii  udev                   175-3.1
ii  vim-tiny               2:7.3.547-3
ii  xfsprogs               3.1.7+b1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
ii  zerofree               1.0.2-1
ii  zfs-fuse               0.7.0-8

libguestfs0 recommends no packages.

libguestfs0 suggests no packages.

- -- debconf information:
* libguestfs/update-appliance: true

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