[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#701684: Bug#701684: virt-viewer no longer contains virt-viewer

[Guido Günther]

Hi Luca,
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 06:46:04PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:31:22 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:54:41PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >> After upgrading from yesterday's 0.5.4-1 to today's 0.5.5-3 the
> >> virt-viewer program has disappeared from the system.
> >> 
> >>   # dpkg -L virt-viewer | grep bin/virt-viewer
> >>   ...nothing...
> >> 
> >> Installing the previous 0.5.4-1 restored it and worked around the
> >> problem.
> > This is caused by a too old libvirt in sid. We're also lacking a newer
> > spice-gtk to fix this in a at least experimental (#700562 ). In case
> > this doesn't get uploaded soonish we'll need to revert the version in
> > sid.
> 
> I just got it by this bug as well and IMHO the current solution
> (upgrading to the versions in experimental) is not fine: virt-viewer in
> sid is still broken and, after having visited the bug report, there is
> no ETA for a fixed version in sid.
> 
> BTW, I know I am complaining without helping, but I am currently lacking
> time for my work as well :-(

It's fixed now in sid. I'm sorry for the long delay.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> On a side note, the debian/changelog is a bit empty WRT the reasons for
> new uploads since 0.5.4-1 (and #684725 has not marked as fixed), which
> means that apt-listchanges for virt-viewer is useless:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> virt-viewer (0.5.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * New upload
> 
>  -- Laurent Léonard <laurent at open-minds.org>  Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:45:49 +0100
> 
> virt-viewer (0.5.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * New upload
> 
>  -- Laurent Léonard <laurent at open-minds.org>  Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:53:02 +0100
> 
> virt-viewer (0.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * [5bf850a] Imported Upstream version 0.5.5 (Closes: #684725)
> 
>  -- Laurent Léonard <laurent at open-minds.org>  Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:20:54 +0100
> 
> virt-viewer (0.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * [e3fbded] Imported Upstream version 0.5.4
>   * [43b4d1e] Remove LDFLAGS override
> 
>  -- Laurent Léonard <laurent at open-minds.org>  Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:09:48 +0200
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca