[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#768376: libvirt-daemon-system: Please downgrade policykit-1 dependency to recommends

[Reco]

Package: libvirt-daemon-system
Version: 1.2.9-3~bpo70+1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

A recent upload of backported libvirt packages introduced policykit-1
hard dependency on libvirt-daemon-system package.

Such dependency is unnecessary strict, as 'polkit' authentication type
(according to the /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf) is not the only
authentication libvirtd can use (it's trivial to modify libvirtd.conf to
remove the need of polkit), although libvirtd uses 'polkit' as the
default authentication type.

Regardless of how suitable such dependency is for jessie, please
consider downgrading policykit-1 dependency to recommends for
wheezy-backports at least.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system depends on:
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  gettext-base         0.18.1.1-9
ii  init-system-helpers  1.18~bpo70+1
ii  libapparmor1         2.7.103-4
ii  libaudit0            1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libavahi-client3     0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3     0.6.31-2
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.3
ii  libc6                2.13-38+deb7u6
ii  libcap-ng0           0.6.6-2
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.6.8-1+deb7u4
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1   2:1.02.74-8
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.0-5+deb7u1
ii  libgnutls26          2.12.20-8+deb7u2
ii  libnl1               1.1-7
ii  libnuma1             2.0.8~rc4-1
ii  libsasl2-2           2.1.25.dfsg1-6+deb7u1
ii  libselinux1          2.1.9-5
ii  libssh2-1            1.4.2-1.1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   44-11+deb7u4
ii  libvirt-clients      1.2.9-3~bpo70+1
ii  libvirt-daemon       1.2.9-3~bpo70+1
ii  libvirt0             1.2.9-3~bpo70+1
ii  libxml2              2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy2
ii  libyajl2             2.0.4-2
ii  logrotate            3.8.1-4
ii  policykit-1          0.105-3

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system recommends:
ii  bridge-utils  1.5-6
ii  dmidecode     2.11-9
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.62-3+deb7u1
pn  ebtables      <none>
pn  iproute2      <none>
ii  iptables      1.4.14-3.1
ii  parted        2.3-12
ii  pm-utils      1.4.1-9

Versions of packages libvirt-daemon-system suggests:
pn  apparmor   <none>
pn  auditd     <none>
ii  radvd      1:1.8.5-1
pn  systemd    <none>
pn  systemtap  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf changed [not included]
/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf changed [not included]
/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml changed [not included]

-- no debconf information