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

[Guido Günther]

Hi Riku,
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 12:58:06PM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:23:53PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:36:21AM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> That is indeed simple for packages, but devstack case we install packages
> from shellscript:
> 
> https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/1c13be860ba3662bf6c633fc37668f7feacdd3e5/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt#L27

There seem to be several work arounds in place already so I'd be more
happy to keep libvirt-bin out. Otherwise I'd see no way how we'd ever
get rid of such transitional packages in the future.
Cheers,
 -- Guido