[Libguestfs] OT: nbdkit packaging in debian

[Hilko Bengen]

* Richard W.M. Jones:

> 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.

That bug resulted in most of the plugins not being built at all.

> 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.

That's a good idea. I think I am going to split the package up.

Cheers,
-Hilko