[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#887232: virt-sandbox should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

[Andreas Henriksson]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 08:12:17PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Package: virt-sandbox
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> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt_sandbox/image/sources/base.py contains mkfs.ext3. According to file it is a Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable
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The use of mkfs.ext3 is found here:

https://sources.debian.org/src/libvirt-sandbox/0.5.1+git20160404-1/libvirt-sandbox/image/sources/base.py/#L138

As can be seen /sbin/mkfs.ext3 is passed as an *argument* to the
virt-sandbox command. I assume mkfs.ext3 is executed inside some
sort of sandbox.

A dependency would make sure the command is available *outside* the
sandbox, but I have no idea if this benefits what's run *inside* the
sandbox in any way....

Would be great to hear the maintainers view on this.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson