Bug#774185: libsys-virt-perl: Relax dependency on libvirt-bin to recommends

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Tue Dec 30 05:24:11 UTC 2014


Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your report.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:03:46AM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> right now libsys-virt-perl declares a hard dependency on libvirt-bin
> which is rather silly since libvirt supports accessing remote daemons
> via the network so why should this library depend on the deamon anyways?
> 
> This is not only an inconvinience but could also result in security
> issues for users unknowingly installing an autostarting daemon even
> though they just tried to install libguestfs-tools for example (which
> is the problem I ran into).
> 
> So I propose at least downgrading the dependency on libvirt-bin to a
> Recomends so users can choose not to install the daemon.

The depdendency was at the time added by me in version 1.1.4-1, since
/usr/share/libvirt/cpu_map.xml is used as far I remember. But I need
to look closer at it, if we can weaken de dependency.

Regards,
Salvatore



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