Okay, discussed this further with Jamie in IRC...
1) For Lucid, we're going to leave this as is (libvirt recommending kvm), as
this is what our users and documentation have grown to expect up until this
point at the release of our LTS
2) For Maverick, we can/should drop this to a libvirt sugge
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:16:43PM -, Mathias Gug wrote:
>> I disagree. It wouldn't be found in a Xen installation would it. And
>> if you want to use just remote URIs then ' installing this one
>> without them is perfectly reasonable'.
> I tend to follow the 80/20 rule. My guess is that 80% of
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Wishlist
Assignee: Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
Status: In Progress
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Hmm, well, I agree with Mathias' logic.
And I do think we're following the Debian policy here for recommends
(most libvirt installs accompany a hypervisor).
But it does not have to be that way.
Personally, I'd be fine downgrading the hypervisors to suggests, if
there are no objections...
I hope
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:00:35AM -, Neil Wilson wrote:
> I disagree. It wouldn't be found in a Xen installation would it. And
> if you want to use just remote URIs then ' installing this one without
> them is perfectly reasonable'.
>
I tend to follow the 80/20 rule. My guess is that 80% of t
I disagree. It wouldn't be found in a Xen installation would it. And
if you want to use just remote URIs then ' installing this one without
them is perfectly reasonable'.
Would it not be more appropriate to split libvirt-bin into two
packages - one of which is core and can be used for remote URI,
According to the Debian policy:
Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
Suggests
This is used to declare that one package may be more usef
See also bug 556326
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libvirt packages should not Recommend hypervisor packages
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