[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#842911: Bug#842911: please reconsider dropping libvirt-bin

[Guido Günther]

conrol: -1 wontfix

Hi,
On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:36:21AM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote:
> Package: libvirt
> Version: 2.3.0-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> libvirt-bin is still referred to in many places, for example in openstack
> devstack. The replacement -clients and -daemon-system packages are not yet
> available in the latest ubuntu LTS. This leads to some inconvinient
> "if ubuntu then else if debian newer than then" checks if we want to support both.

It's simple as:

    Depends: libvirt-daemon-system | libvirt-bin, libvirt-clients | libvirt-bin

so I'd rather not readd the transitional package. I don't want to make
people's lifes harder than necessary though so if you think it's more
complex please explain.
Cheers,
 -- Guido