On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:13 AM Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> Hi Christian, > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 09:18:33AM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > > libvirt-lxc is something I want to keep in the default install > > Would you be ok then to split it and make it a depends or recommends > for > > Debian? > > I could then on the Ubuntu Delta change that Dependency to a suggest > as we > > would prefer it. > > Splitting this out is probably o.k. if we'd split out all drivers (and > add the necessary depends). I'd be ok to split the remaining drivers if you want me to do so, I was not taking out the most essential ones just as you have done for storage. But if you want I can make one for each driver that exists in the package. > This also needs a NEWS entry so people are > aware that this has changed Sure, I can do so in a v2 as well > as well as bugs against all reverse > dependencies to inform them that they might need to depend on a > different package. If we keep all but Xen as Depends, and only Xen to a Recommends/Suggests depending on your judgement that should not be too much affected packages. > Is this worth the trouble for getting rid of a libxen > dependency? > I'm tempted to say yes, but let me check how many reasonable reverse dependencies that are out there that might be affected (how many of them are Xen related/consuming). I'm a bit short on time atm being here a few days in between PTO, I'll report back here later on. cu Christian > Cheers, > -- Guido > -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
