Bug#842919: transition: xen

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 04/11/16 01:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes ("Re: Bug#842919: transition: xen"):
>> On 02/11/16 11:47, Ian Jackson wrote:
> ...
>>> All that is needed from the build-rdeps is a rebuild.  That is, of:
>>>   libvirt qemu xenwatch python-pyxenstore collectd grub2
>>>
>>> I have checked that they all build against the new libxen{-4.8,-dev},
>>> at least on amd64.  I don't anticipate trouble on other architectures.
>>
>> The ben tracker only lists qemu and libvirt as rdeps of the binaries
>> that are removed in the new version. Why do the other packages need
>> a rebuild? Do any of them statically link libxen or something?
> 
> (Hi.  Thanks for your attention.  I am somewhat full of wine right
> now, so my answers may be wrong.  It seemed better to reply sooner.
> My work hat can produce more sober replies tomorrow:)
> 
> I got the list from "build-rdeps".  Is it wrong ?  It's the list of
> things which have libxen-dev as a build-dep.
> 
> Hrm.  I looked at xenwatch and python-pyxenstore and though the source
> packages Build-Depend on libxen, the binaries Depend only libxenstore
> whose ABI version and package name have not changed.  So I think,
> then, that there is actually no need to recompile those two, although
> it would probably be best to do so as a precaution (in case the ABI
> has unwittingly changed, in which case it would be somewhat better for
> stretch to be internally consistent).
> 
> In my test rebuild, collectd.deb Depends libxen-4.8.  My apt-cache
> show thinks that sid's current collectd Depends libxen-4.6.  I'm not
> sure why a collectd rebuild would not be needed.
> 
> grub2 is more complicated.  I am going to reply separately about that,
> CC grub2@p.d.o.

Sounds good to me. Please go ahead.

Thanks,
Emilio