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

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:30:09PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> 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...

Well, what about this then:

Subject: [PATCH] spice is only available on i386 and amd64

so don't depend on it on other architectures
---
 debian/control | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a16aff7..8c21f1b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Architecture: all
 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
+ python-gtk-vnc (>= 0.3.8), python-ipy (>= 0.70),
+ python-spice-client-gtk [i386 amd64]
 Recommends: libvirt-bin (>= 0.4.6), gnome-icon-theme
 Suggests: virt-viewer, ssh-askpass, gnome-keyring, python-gnomekeyring, hal,
  python-guestfs
-- 
1.8.4.rc3