[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 06/16] debian/control: Update utils Recommends

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi,

On 1/2/21 9:30 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Presently PyGRUB and PvGRUB are the DomU bootloaders available in
> Debian.  Several alternative DomU bootloaders exist, but are not yet
> available.  Add a recommendation of "xen-domu-bootloader" meant to be
> provided by these options.
> 
> While the "traditional" Linux bridge has been favored for a long time,
> presently Open vSwitch is gaining favor.  Add ovn-host as an alternative
> recommendation to bridge-utils.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+debian at m5p.com>
> ---
>  debian/control | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index 5e24f5fd3c..fc4523945c 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Section: admin
>  Architecture: amd64 arm64 armhf i386
>  Provides: xen-utils
>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python3, xen-utils-common (>= ${source:Version})
> -Recommends: bridge-utils, libc6-xen [i386], xen-hypervisor-4.14, qemu-system-x86, grub-xen-host [i386 amd64]
> +Recommends: ovn-host|bridge-utils, libc6-xen [i386], xen-hypervisor-4.14, qemu-system-x86, xen-domu-bootloader|grub-xen-host

This immediately makes ovn-host the default. We should not do that
unless there have been a huge amount of improvement in the user
documentation (e.g. cleaning up the mess that wiki.debian is).

xen-domu-bootloader does not even exist as package. It does not make any
sense to add it.

>  Suggests: qemu-utils [i386 amd64], seabios [i386 amd64], ovmf
>  Description: XEN administrative tools
>   The userspace tools to manage a system virtualized through the XEN virtual

Hans