[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#694362: libvirt0: Please resolve conflict with libnetcf1

[Bob Proulx]

Package: libvirt0
Version: 0.9.12-5
Severity: normal

Referencing Bug#688167#29[1] a new libnetcf1 was uploaded to Sid
containing a "Conflicts: libvirt0 (<= 0.10.1-2~)".  Al Stone did this
on 2012-11-18.  (Was this intended to target Experimental rathar than
Sid?)

Since that libnetcf1 upload users must "hold" libnetcf1 at the
previous version or risk the Conflict removing the current libvirt0
and dependent packages (and taking down their VMs) from the system.

    The following packages will be REMOVED:
      libvirt-bin libvirt0 python-libvirt virt-manager virt-top
      virt-viewer virtinst
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      libnl-route-3-200
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      libnetcf1 netcf
    2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

For others looking at this problem, holding libnetcf1 works around
this conflict but is not a long term solution.

  # apt-mark hold libnetcf1

Since this upload appears to have been coordinated but hasn't
completed yet it would be great if there were a status update as to
the transition status.  Information would go a long way to calming the
natives. :-)

Thanks for maintaining these packages in Debian.

Bob

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688167#29