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

[Hilko Bengen]

* Florian La Roche:

> 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?

Libguestfs and all tools based on it use qemu to spin up a minimal Linux
system that is constructed using supermin. For this it needs a kernel
image and modules, among other things.

Cheers,
-Hilko