[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#819308: libguestfs: Build-Depends on linux-image (?)

[Santiago Vila]

severity 819308 wishlist
tags 819308 + patch
thanks

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Hilko Bengen wrote:

> linux-image-* is needed to be able to run the tests which involves
> firing up qemu and a minimal system. This is currently only done on
> i386, amd64. I don't recall any other reason for the build dependency
> at the moment.

(Sorry for the late reply)

The above explanation seems perfect to me. Could we have it in
a README.source file?

I think this is allowed or even encouraged by policy:

  Even if the package doesn't fit the above description, maintainers are
  encouraged to document in a debian/README.source file any source 
  package with a particularly complex or unintuitive source layout or
  build system (for example, a package that builds the same source
  multiple times to generate different binary packages).

Suggested wording in the attached patch (it's basically what you wrote).

(Downgrading to wishlist as this is a documentation bug at most).

Thanks a lot.
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