[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#700231: Bug#700231: libvirt-bin: Recommends: on newer qemu-kvm should be better publicized
Guido Günther
agx at sigxcpu.org
Mon Feb 18 08:37:14 UTC 2013
Hi Lars,
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:37:49AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> 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:
Do you remember what exactly broke with old QEMU from Squeeze?
Cheers,
-- Guido
> =====
> $ 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
> $
> =====
>
> 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
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> -- 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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