[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] debian: Created a debian equivalent to xen-bugtool

[Ethan Jackson]

> When we add this to the Debian packaging we should also make sure to add
> proper dependencies; for example, the script uses bzip2 so that should
> be a dependency.  If there are lots of these dependencies then we'll
> have to drop some of them (i.e. hdparm or lvdisplay would probably be no
> great loss) or break this program into a separate openvswitch-bugtool
> package.

Couple of things.
1) I'm not sure why they are bothering with bzip2.  I might just
change that to gzip so we can remove the dependency
2) I think there is a distinction between dependencies which are
required for the script to run (like python) and soft dependencies
which result in more debugging information, but aren't strictly
necessary for the script to run (like hdparm).  I'm not sure there is
a lot of value in adding those things to the package, if the system
already has them installed then great, we will use them.  Otherwise we
just won't get that debugging output.