[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#736597: libguestfs-tools: inflated Depends for guestmount and update-guestfs-appliance

[Johannes Schauer]

Package: libguestfs-tools
Version: 1:1.25.26-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

the libguestfs-tools package provides the binaries guestmount and
update-guestfs-appliance which together can be used to mount filesystems
from disk images purely in user space. Unfortunately, installing
libguestfs-tools also drags in zfs-fuse through its Depends on
libguestfs0 and libvirt-bin through its Depends on libsys-virt-perl.
Unfortunately zfs-fuse and libvirt-bin will run services in the
background upon installation. I replaced zfs-fuse and libvirt-bin by
empty equiv packages and found out that the functionality of guestmount
and update-guestfs-appliance does not depend on zfs-fuse or libvirt-bin
being installed or their services running.

My plea is, to make it possible to use guestmount and
update-guestfs-appliance without having to install zfs-fuse and
libvirt-bin and in turn having to run their respective services in the
background.

So please either demote the involved dependencies to Recommends or split
out the libguestfs-tools and guestmount binaries into a new package
which does not directly or indirectly depend on zfs-fuse and
libvirt-bin.

Thanks!

cheers, josch