[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#730604: Bug#730604: libvirt-bin: Please rename libvirt-bin.service back to libvirtd.service and use symlink or Alias= instead

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:36:31AM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 1.1.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could you please rename back the libvirt-bin.service systemd service
> file to libvirtd.service and use a symlink (libvirtd.service ->
> libvirt-bin.service) or add Alias=libvirt-bin.service in the service
> file instead.

I've actually done this already here a couple of weeks ago to reduce the
upstream diff but didn't get around to test if the upgrade works as
expected when the unit name changes (since we don't stop the service in
the preinst). Now that I read the below it was a good idea to not upload
without proper testing.

> Other upstream project are expecting the service to be called
> libvirtd.service and I guess this would be a good idea to not change
> this expectation in debian.
> 
> There was some discussion about using a symlink vs Alias= on the bug
> #719695, maybe a systemd maintainer could tell us the status of this?

I wasn't aware of that. So a symlink would be the better solution once
this is fixed.

As a interim solution we could add a libvirtd alias if it breaks other
software.

Cheers,
 -- Guido
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Laurent Bigonville
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.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         0.18.3.1-1
> ii  init-system-helpers  1.13
> ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.2-2
> ii  libavahi-client3     0.6.31-2
> ii  libavahi-common3     0.6.31-2
> ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.5
> ii  libc6                2.17-96
> ii  libcap-ng0           0.7.3-1+b1
> ii  libdbus-1-3          1.7.8-1
> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1   2:1.02.77-6+b1
> ii  libfuse2             2.9.2-4
> ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-2
> ii  libgnutls26          2.12.23-8
> ii  libnetcf1            1:0.2.3-4
> ii  libnl-3-200          3.2.21-1
> ii  libnl-route-3-200    3.2.21-1
> ii  libnuma1             2.0.9~rc5-1
> ii  libparted0debian1    2.3-16
> ii  libpcap0.8           1.4.0-2
> ii  libpciaccess0        0.13.2-1
> ii  librados2            0.72.1-2
> ii  librbd1              0.72.1-2
> ii  libreadline6         6.2+dfsg-0.1
> ii  libsasl2-2           2.1.25.dfsg1-17
> ii  libudev1             204-5
> ii  libvirt0             1.1.4-1
> ii  libxen-4.3           4.3.0-3
> ii  libxenstore3.0       4.3.0-3
> ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-3
> ii  libyajl2             2.0.4-4
> ii  logrotate            3.8.6-1
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
> ii  bridge-utils                1.5-7
> ii  dmidecode                   2.12-2
> ii  dnsmasq-base                2.67-1
> ii  ebtables                    2.0.10.4-3
> ii  iproute                     1:3.11.0-1
> ii  iptables                    1.4.20-2
> ii  libxml2-utils               2.9.1+dfsg1-3
> ii  netcat-openbsd              1.105-7
> ii  parted                      2.3-16
> ii  pm-utils                    1.4.1-13
> ii  qemu-kvm                    1.6.0+dfsg-2
> ii  qemu-system-x86 [qemu-kvm]  1.6.0+dfsg-2
> 
> Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
> ii  auditd       1:2.3.2-2
> ii  policykit-1  0.105-4
> pn  radvd        <none>
> pn  systemtap    <none>
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf [Errno 13] Permission non accordée: u'/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf'
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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