[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#700231: libvirt-bin: Recommends: on newer qemu-kvm should be better publicized
Luca Capello
luca at pca.it
Sun Feb 10 10:37:49 UTC 2013
Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.9.12-6~bpo60+1
Severity: normal
Usertags: pca.it-virtualization
Hi there!
During today's upgrade I was surprised to read about the new qemu-kvm
required by libvirt-bin and discovering that I was still using the old
one:
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$ zcat /usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/changelog.Debian.gz | head -n 6
libvirt (0.9.12-6~bpo60+1) squeeze-backports; urgency=low
* Rebuild for squeeze-backports.
* [141e575] Depend on newer qemu-kvm
available via backports too since the one in Squeeze has some interop
issues.
$ dpkg-query -W libvirt-bin
libvirt-bin 0.9.12-6~bpo60+1
$ dpkg-query -s libvirt-bin | grep qemu-kvm
Recommends: netcat-openbsd, bridge-utils, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), \
iptables (>= 1.4.10), qemu-kvm (>= 1.1.2) | qemu (>= 0.9.1), \
libxml2-utils, gawk, ebtables, dmidecode, iproute, parted
Enhances: qemu, qemu-kvm, xen
$ dpkg-query -W qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze10
$ apt-cache policy qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm:
Installed: 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze10
Candidate: 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze10
Version table:
1.1.2+dfsg-5~bpo60+1 0
100 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages
*** 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze10 0
500 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze9 0
500 http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
$
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There is no notice of any possible problems in the libvirt logs and
indeed libvirt-bin seems to work fine with the old qemu-kvm. Which
means that, if you do not have apt-listchanges installed and you do not
read the changelog.Debian before upgrading, you end up not noticing such
new requirement. FYI, after having installed the new qemu-kvm
libvirt-bin still works fine ;-)
Given that I do not think there is a way to have the Recommends:
satisfied, I would announce such requirement more prominently, e.g. in
NEWS.Debian.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi common library
ii libblkid1 2.17.2-9 block device id library
ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap-ng0 0.6.4-1 An alternate posix capabilities li
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1+squeeze2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libnl1 1.1-6 library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnuma1 2.0.5-1 Libraries for controlling NUMA pol
ii libparted0debian1 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii libpcap0.8 1.1.1-2+squeeze1 system interface for user-level pa
ii libpciaccess0 0.12.0-1 Generic PCI access library for X
ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-7 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii libudev0 164-3 libudev shared library
ii libuuid1 2.17.2-9 Universally Unique ID library
ii libvirt0 0.9.12-6~bpo60+1 library for interfacing with diffe
ii libxenstore3.0 4.0.1-5.5 Xenstore communications library fo
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze6 GNOME XML library
ii libyajl1 1.0.8-1 Yet Another JSON Library
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii dmidecode 2.9-1.2 Dump Desktop Management Interface
ii dnsmasq-base 2.55-2 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii ebtables 2.0.9.2-2 Ethernet bridge frame table admini
pn gawk <none> (no description available)
ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too
ii iptables 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi
pn libxml2-utils <none> (no description available)
ii netcat-openbsd 1.89-4 TCP/IP swiss army knife
pn parted <none> (no description available)
ii qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze10 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar
Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn policykit-1 <none> (no description available)
pn radvd <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-10
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-1
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-1
ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.3
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libcap-ng0 0.7.3-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.74-6
ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3
ii libgnutls26 2.12.20-4
ii libnetcf1 1:0.2.0-5
ii libnl1 1.1-7
ii libnuma1 2.0.8-1
ii libparted0debian1 2.3-12
ii libpcap0.8 1.3.0-1
ii libpciaccess0 0.13.1-2
ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.25.dfsg1-6
ii libudev0 175-7.1
ii libvirt0 0.9.12-6
ii libxenstore3.0 4.1.4-2
ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
ii libyajl2 2.0.4-2
ii logrotate 3.8.3-3
Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii bridge-utils 1.5-6
ii dmidecode 2.11+20120326-2
ii dnsmasq-base 2.65-1
ii ebtables 2.0.10.4-1
ii gawk 1:4.0.1+dfsg-2
ii iproute 20120521-3
ii iptables 1.4.16.3-4
pn libxml2-utils <none>
ii netcat-openbsd 1.105-7
ii parted 2.3-12
ii qemu 1.1.2+dfsg-5
ii qemu-kvm 1.1.2+dfsg-5
Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii policykit-1 0.105-3
pn radvd <none>
-- no debconf information
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