[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#971375: libguestfs-tools depends on the kernel (linux-image-amd64) on amd64

[Florian La Roche]

Package: libguestfs-tools
Version: 1:1.42.0-8
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Florian.LaRoche at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

libguestfs-tools depends on linux-image-amd64 for amd64 systems.
If you only run within a container (lxc), there is usually no kernel
installed at all.
(Also you might have different kernels installed.)

Can those dependencies be removed?

best regards,
thanks for libguestfs-tools,

Florian La Roche




# LANG=en_US apt install libguestfs-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  attr btrfs-progs cryptsetup-bin db-util db5.3-util exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light extlinux f2fs-tools hfsplus icoutils ldmtool libafflib0v5 libbfio1 libconfig9 libdate-manip-perl libewf2
  libf2fs-format4 libf2fs5 libgnutls-dane0 libgsasl7 libguestfs-hfsplus libguestfs-perl libguestfs-reiserfs libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 libhfsp0 libhivex0 libintl-perl libintl-xs-perl libldm-1.0-0 libmailutils7
  libntlm0 libstring-shellquote-perl libsys-virt-perl libtsk19 libunbound8 libvhdi1 libvmdk1 libwin-hivex-perl libxml-xpath-perl libyara4 linux-image-5.8.0-2-amd64 linux-image-amd64 lsscsi lzop mailutils
  mailutils-common mdadm mtools ovmf qemu-system-x86 reiserfsprogs scrub seabios sleuthkit squashfs-tools supermin syslinux syslinux-common uuid-runtime virt-p2v xfsprogs zerofree
Suggested packages:
  duperemove exim4-doc-html | exim4-doc-info eximon4 spf-tools-perl swaks libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl libguestfs-gfs2 libguestfs-jfs libguestfs-nilfs libguestfs-rescue
  libguestfs-rsync libguestfs-zfs linux-doc-5.8 debian-kernel-handbook mailutils-mh mailutils-doc dracut-core floppyd samba vde2 qemu-block-extra autopsy mac-robber xfsdump
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-5.8.0-2-amd64-unsigned
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  attr btrfs-progs cryptsetup-bin db-util db5.3-util exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light extlinux f2fs-tools hfsplus icoutils ldmtool libafflib0v5 libbfio1 libconfig9 libdate-manip-perl libewf2
  libf2fs-format4 libf2fs5 libgnutls-dane0 libgsasl7 libguestfs-hfsplus libguestfs-perl libguestfs-reiserfs libguestfs-tools libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 libhfsp0 libhivex0 libintl-perl libintl-xs-perl
  libldm-1.0-0 libmailutils7 libntlm0 libstring-shellquote-perl libsys-virt-perl libtsk19 libunbound8 libvhdi1 libvmdk1 libwin-hivex-perl libxml-xpath-perl libyara4 linux-image-5.8.0-2-amd64 linux-image-amd64
  lsscsi lzop mailutils mailutils-common mdadm mtools ovmf qemu-system-x86 reiserfsprogs scrub seabios sleuthkit squashfs-tools supermin syslinux syslinux-common uuid-runtime virt-p2v xfsprogs zerofree
0 upgraded, 66 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 97.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 159 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libguestfs-tools depends on:
ii  curl                       7.72.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.31-3
ii  libconfig9                 1.5-0.4
ii  libcrypt1                  1:4.4.17-1
ii  libfuse2                   2.9.9-3
ii  libguestfs-perl            1:1.42.0-8
ii  libguestfs0                1:1.42.0-8
ii  libintl-perl               1.26-2
ii  libjansson4                2.13.1-1
ii  liblzma5                   5.2.4-1+b1
ii  libpcre3                   2:8.39-13
ii  libreadline8               8.0-4
ii  libstring-shellquote-perl  1.04-1
ii  libsys-virt-perl           6.3.0-1
ii  libtinfo6                  6.2+20200918-1
ii  libvirt0                   6.6.0-2
ii  libwin-hivex-perl          1.3.19-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.10+dfsg-6

Versions of packages libguestfs-tools recommends:
ii  gnupg     2.2.20-1
pn  virt-p2v  <none>

libguestfs-tools suggests no packages.

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