[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#679074: Please separate the init scripts for a system-wide libvirtd from the binaries usable for a per-user libvirtd

[Josh Triplett]

Package: libvirt-bin
Severity: normal

libvirt-bin currently includes both the libvirtd binary (and other
binaries) and the init scripts to start a system instance of libvirtd.
However, many applications using libvirt only need a per-user instance
of libvirtd, not a system instance.  For instance, gnome-boxes currently
depends on libvirt-bin to get libvirtd, but it doesn't need the system
instance.  According to gnome-boxes upstream, "you can connect to remote
instances, but the only thing that is sanely integrated in the UI is
creating local VMs in a per-user libvirtd".  (Anything else, including
the system instance, requires hand-entering a libvirt URI.)

So, please split the init scripts for a system-wide libvirtd instance
into a separate package from the binaries.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash