[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#849293: Bug#849293: virt-manager is uninstallable: virtinst binary package went missing

[Guido Günther]

Hi Simon,
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 06:25:26PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 1:1.4.0-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> virt-manager Depends on virtinst. Both are produced by src:virt-manager
> and are Architecture: all, but the 1:1.4.0-4 upload somehow includes
> virt-manager_*_all.deb but not virtinst_*_all.deb.
> <https://tracker.debian.org/news/826567> says:
> 
> > Files: 
> >  120ff4558a7c16d7ce34e819c4443658 2167 admin optional virt-manager_1.4.0-4.dsc
> >  6845af224bda02baf0224d337d019f18 15208 admin optional virt-manager_1.4.0-4.debian.tar.xz
> >  245d8408f4a1242ab2d26b8fed725467 913498 admin optional virt-manager_1.4.0-4_all.deb
> 
> I don't know how this happened, but when I rebuilt it in a clean sid chroot
> with sbuild, I correctly got both binary packages produced.

    mergechanges -i virt-manager_1.4.0-4_amd64.changes virt-manager_1.4.0-4_amd64.changes > virt-manager_1.4.0-4_source+all.changes

is buggy in 2.16.10 and reliably drops virtinstall - if the cowbuilder
build would have missed the package already the autopkgtests would have
failed. devscripts  2.16.13 looks fixed.

> I would suggest making source-only uploads so that the Architecture: all
> buildd will do the build in a predictable environment (this worked in my
> sbuild when I tried it, so hopefully it will work equally well on buildds).

Not uploading binary packages was the whole point of the above (althogh
did not yet switch to -S instead of -i for unstable which I've done
now).

Cheers and sorry for the inconvenience,
 -- Guido

> 
> Regards,
>     S
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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