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

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:18:24PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:29:08 +0200,
> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi Laurent,
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:53:52PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > Package: libvirt-bin
> > > Followup-For: Bug #730604
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Are you still OK with this patch? Uploading it to experimental
> > > might be a good idea show people can test if everything is going OK
> > > with the restart of the daemon?
> > 
> > Patch is still fine I'm just lagging in libvirt work (didn't get
> > around to look into the FTBFS on i386 even). The plan was to add this
> > to with 1.2.4.
> 
> OK, so apparently, the service file is now containing
> "Restart=on-failure" which mean that we cannot just blindly kill the
> process in the postinst script.
> 
> I guess the patch needs to be updated to stop libvirt cleanly in the
> preinst script instead but this will result in an longer downtime. I
> guess that we need to do this before jessie release to not impact
> people upgrading between jessie and jessie+1

Yeah, it's there since 1.1.2 as I just checked. I do wonder why I
didn't trip on it during my tests though. The version including your
patch is sitting in NEW since a couple of days. Do you intend to
send an updated patch?
Cheers,
 -- Guido