[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#883020: Debian Bug Report: libguestfs0 should not depend on btrfs-progs

[H.-Dirk Schmitt]

Am Dienstag, den 28.11.2017, 23:13 +0100 schrieb Hilko Bengen:
> libguestfs is designed to handle disk images of virtual machines and
> it
> makes sense to include at least support for common filesystems. You
> and
> I may not particularly like the filesystem, but btrfs is one of the
> more
> commonly used filesystems.

See e.g. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main%5FPage
„Not too many companies have said that they are using Btrfs in
production…“

> See [1] for why the binary packages built from the libguestfs source
> packages are split the way they are right now.

But size is not the only criteria - see below.
> > There are systems which explicitly exclude btrfs from setup.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow: Do you mean that some sort of policy
> forbids/prevents installation of anything btrfs-related?

**YES**
I'm maintaining an mid-size installation. For these systems 'btrfs-
tools' is explicitly removed:
  - not used, because I rely on ext4 and mdraid
  - limiting the installed packages is improving the security (reducing
surface)
  - it has had introduced a boot delay (at this time trusty was used,
not retested actually).

In my opinion a package maintainer shouldn't nail a dependency if the
package may work without.
It is simple discrete mathematics that he couldn't overview the
exponentially growing diversity of installations 😉


Best Regards,

H.-DIrk Schmitt
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