#1096203 libvirt-daemon: suggest firewalld

Package:
libvirt-daemon
Source:
libvirt-daemon
Description:
Virtualization daemon
Submitter:
Lee Garrett
Date:
2025-03-16 21:33:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1096203#5
Date:
2025-02-17 14:39:12 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I believe the libvirt-daemon package should "Suggests: firewalld" to inform
users that it can use firewalld for connection handling. (Further info:
https://libvirt.org/firewall.html#firewalld-and-the-virtual-network-driver)

Greets,
Lee

#1096203#10
Date:
2025-03-16 21:30:00 UTC
From:
To:
A long-standing Depends on firewalld was dropped somewhat recently
with

https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/commit/527cf925a71b8b5611877462be6cf1aceefcdd61

My understanding remains that, if firewalld is running, libvirt needs
to communicate with it in order to ensure that the firewall rules it
adds are effective; however, if firewalld is not present on the
system, installing it is completely unnecessary.

Do you have reasons to believe that the above is not accurate? If so,
we might consider adding a Suggests for it. Otherwise, I believe we
should leave things as they are right now.