[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#901940: different libvirt-lxc usage

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:13 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 09:18:33AM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> >    > libvirt-lxc is something I want to keep in the default install
> >    Would you be ok then to split it and make it a depends or recommends
> for
> >    Debian?
> >    I could then on the Ubuntu Delta change that Dependency to a suggest
> as we
> >    would prefer it.
>
> Splitting this out is probably o.k. if we'd split out all drivers (and
> add the necessary depends).


I'd be ok to split the remaining drivers if you want me to do so, I was not
taking out the most essential ones just as you have done for storage.
But if you want I can make one for each driver that exists in the package.


> This also needs a NEWS entry so people are
> aware that this has changed


Sure, I can do so in a v2 as well


> as well as bugs against all reverse
> dependencies to inform them that they might need to depend on a
> different package.


If we keep all but Xen as Depends, and only Xen to a Recommends/Suggests
depending on your judgement that should not be too much affected packages.


> Is this worth the trouble for getting rid of a libxen
> dependency?
>

I'm tempted to say yes, but let me check how many reasonable reverse
dependencies that are out there that might be affected (how many of them
are Xen related/consuming).
I'm a bit short on time atm being here a few days in between PTO, I'll
report back here later on.

cu
Christian


> Cheers,
>  -- Guido
>


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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