[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#691784: [virt-manager] make spice optional (on !linux-{i386, amd64})

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:44:08PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 01:18:39PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > Would it be feasible to upload this fix to wheezy-proposed-updates, since the
> > package is uninstallable on non-x86 arches? Is it a simple change in the
> > Depends/Recommends, or does it require code changes that would be too invasive
> > for wheezy?
> 
> It should be only the dependency change. Spice should be optional one
> would have to test if this holds true for the version in wheezy too.
> Could you test that?

Tested and works for me on wheezy armhf... 

I suspect it would work with other arches as well, although could change
behavior when recommends are disabled on i386 and amd64...

diff -Nru virt-manager-0.9.1/debian/control virt-manager-0.9.1/debian/control
--- virt-manager-0.9.1/debian/control	2012-02-14 03:17:39.000000000 -0800
+++ virt-manager-0.9.1/debian/control	2013-09-18 11:57:52.000000000 -0700
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, python-gtk2,
  python-glade2, python-gnome2, python-dbus, python-urlgrabber, python-vte,
  librsvg2-common, python-libvirt (>= 0.7.1), virtinst (>= 0.600.1),
- python-gtk-vnc (>= 0.3.8), python-ipy (>= 0.70), python-spice-client-gtk
-Recommends: libvirt-bin (>= 0.4.6), gnome-icon-theme
+ python-gtk-vnc (>= 0.3.8), python-ipy (>= 0.70)
+Recommends: libvirt-bin (>= 0.4.6), gnome-icon-theme, python-spice-client-gtk
 Suggests: virt-viewer, ssh-askpass, gnome-keyring, python-gnomekeyring, hal,
  python-guestfs
 Description: desktop application for managing virtual machines


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