[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#688167: Bug#688167: libvirt: Please port to libnl-3.x

[Guido Günther]

Hi Michael,
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:13:05AM +0200, biebl at debian.org wrote:
> Source: libvirt
> Version: 0.9.12-5
> Severity: normal
> User: pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: libnl1-removal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> libvirt has a build-dependency on libnl-dev [1].
> libnl-1.x is no longer actively developed [2] and has been superseded
> by libnl-3.x [3].
> Please port libvirt to this new version resp. notify upstream to get
> libvirt updated.
> One of the major changes in v3 is that the library was split into
> several smaller libraries. You can find a developer' guide and
> API documentation for each library at [2].

libvirt already supports libnl3 we just need to coordinate with
libnetcf. It's already on the TODO list.
Cheers,
 -- Guido


> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libn/libnl.html
> [2] http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
> [3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libn/libnl3.html
> 
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