[Libguestfs] OT: nbdkit packaging in debian (was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nbdkit: Work around what seems like an bug in automake 1.14)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Hilko,

I was looking at this bug:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725504

There's a related issue with the Debian packaging, which is that the
package as a whole requires big dependencies (eg. libguestfs0).
However these are not needed by the base package, just by plugins.

In Fedora we package the plugins as sub-packages, so if you install
the base package you don't require the extra dependencies.  If you
install any plugin, it pulls in the base package.

Here is the Fedora spec file:

  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/nbdkit.git/tree/nbdkit.spec

and how that translates to packages:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=498452

(If you click "info" next to each RPM you can see the runtime
Requires).

Rich.

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