Quoting Maciej Puzio (<email address hidden>):
> May I kindly ask why this bug has been fixed in Quantal, but marked as
> "won't fix" for Precise - current LTS release that will most likely be
> used as VM host OS for the next couple of years?
Because netcf in precise is in universe, not in main. Therefore libvirt,
which is in main, cannot link against it. In quantal, netcf is in main.
Quoting Maciej Puzio (<email address hidden>):
> May I kindly ask why this bug has been fixed in Quantal, but marked as
> "won't fix" for Precise - current LTS release that will most likely be
> used as VM host OS for the next couple of years?
Because netcf in precise is in universe, not in main. Therefore libvirt,
which is in main, cannot link against it. In quantal, netcf is in main.