[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1096203: Bug#1096203: libvirt-daemon: suggest firewalld

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 03:39:12PM +0100, Lee Garrett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe the libvirt-daemon package should "Suggests: firewalld" to inform
> users that it can use firewalld for connection handling. (Further info:
> https://libvirt.org/firewall.html#firewalld-and-the-virtual-network-driver)

A long-standing Depends on firewalld was dropped somewhat recently
with

  https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/commit/527cf925a71b8b5611877462be6cf1aceefcdd61

My understanding remains that, if firewalld is running, libvirt needs
to communicate with it in order to ensure that the firewall rules it
adds are effective; however, if firewalld is not present on the
system, installing it is completely unnecessary.

Do you have reasons to believe that the above is not accurate? If so,
we might consider adding a Suggests for it. Otherwise, I believe we
should leave things as they are right now.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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