[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#529282: Bug#529282: Bug#529282: libvirt: questionable build-dep on open-iscsi

[Paul Collins]

Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:48:00AM +1200, Paul Collins wrote:
>> > It checks for it to get the binary paths.
>> I'm sorry, but that's really silly.  Why doesn't it build-dep on kvm,
>> for example, to make sure it still lives in /usr/bin/kvm?
> It checks for several (iscsiadm, parted, ...) but not all of the needed
> binaries. That should probably be fixed.

Debian packages put binaries in one of a very few standard
locations and they do not change often.  Adding checks is a
waste of your time and will needlessly bloat your build-deps.

-- 
Paul Collins
Wellington, New Zealand

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