[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#961653: libguestfs: FTBFS with Erlang 23

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Hilko,

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:55 PM Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> wrote:
>
> * Sergei Golovan:
>
> > I'd like to upload Erlang 23 for the bullseye release, but it makes
> > libguestfs fail to build from source, because it uses liberl_interface
> > which has been removed from the Erlang distribution.
>
> After briefly chatting with Richard, I have decided to disable building
> the Erlang binding, as it has been done for Fedora.

I've helped a little bit in porting erlang-guestfs to Erlang 23 (see
[1]), so hopefully, you'll
be able to restore the functionality in the future, after it'll make
into a release.

[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/987734fcca101cf782264756f7883cf48430a91b

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan