[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#694020: Bug#694020: Incorrect LSB header, Should-Start contains obsolete hal

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 04:20:58AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.9.12-5
> Severity: normal
> User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: halectomy
> 
> Hi,
> 
> HAL has been deprecated and declared dead upstream so we want to
> get rid of it in Debian [1].
> 
> The libvirt-bin sysv init script contains in its LSB header
> 
> # Should-Start:      hal avahi cgconfig
> # Should-Stop:       hal avahi cgconfig
> 
> Afaics libvirt-bin does not actually need or use hal so this dependency should
> be dropped.

It's used on non-linux architecture for device enumeration, we'd lose a
bit of networking support by that on kFreeBSD. Do you know of any
discussion with the freebsd porters about that? I assume libvirt isn't
the only package affected?
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
> ii  adduser             3.113+nmu3
> ii  gettext-base        0.18.1.1-9
> ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.31-1
> ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.31-1
> ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-5.2
> ii  libc6               2.13-37
> ii  libcap-ng0          0.7.3-1
> ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-5
> ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
> ii  libgnutls26         2.12.20-2
> pn  libnetcf1           <none>
> pn  libnl1              <none>
> pn  libnuma1            <none>
> ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-11
> ii  libpcap0.8          1.3.0-1
> ii  libpciaccess0       0.13.1-2
> ii  libreadline6        6.2-9
> ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.25.dfsg1-6
> ii  libudev0            175-7.1
> pn  libvirt0            <none>
> ii  libxenstore3.0      4.1.3-4
> ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-6
> ii  libyajl2            2.0.4-2
> ii  logrotate           3.8.3-3
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
> pn  bridge-utils    <none>
> ii  dmidecode       2.11+20120326-2
> ii  dnsmasq-base    2.63-4
> pn  ebtables        <none>
> ii  gawk            1:4.0.1+dfsg-2
> ii  iproute         20120521-3
> ii  iptables        1.4.16.3-4
> ii  libxml2-utils   2.8.0+dfsg1-6
> ii  netcat-openbsd  1.105-7
> ii  parted          2.3-11
> ii  qemu            1.1.2+dfsg-2
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
> ii  policykit-1  0.105-1
> pn  radvd        <none>
> 
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