Hi Riku, On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 12:58:06PM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:23:53PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:36:21AM +0000, Riku Voipio wrote: > > > libvirt-bin is still referred to in many places, for example in openstack > > > devstack. The replacement -clients and -daemon-system packages are not yet > > > available in the latest ubuntu LTS. This leads to some inconvinient > > > "if ubuntu then else if debian newer than then" checks if we want to > > > support both. > > > It's simple as: > > > > Depends: libvirt-daemon-system | libvirt-bin, libvirt-clients | > > libvirt-bin > > > so I'd rather not readd the transitional package. I don't want to make > > people's lifes harder than necessary though so if you think it's more > > complex please explain. > > That is indeed simple for packages, but devstack case we install packages > from shellscript: > > https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/1c13be860ba3662bf6c633fc37668f7feacdd3e5/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt#L27
There seem to be several work arounds in place already so I'd be more happy to keep libvirt-bin out. Otherwise I'd see no way how we'd ever get rid of such transitional packages in the future. Cheers, -- Guido
