[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1064126: Bug#1064126: libvirt: install NSS modules into /usr

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 05:41:25PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 03:30:23PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Note that I have also uploaded 10.6.0-1 in the meantime, which is set
> > to migrate to testing tomorrow. I wonder how the two uploads will
> > interact with each other.
> 
> It is my understanding that since 10.6.0-1 is a higher version number
> than 10.5.0-1.1 the upload from
> 
>   https://ftp-master.debian.org/deferred.html
> 
> will be discarded which, given what you write above, sounds like the
> right thing to happen.

Thanks for weighing in, Guido.

I spent some more time testing the restructuring today, and it seems
to behave well. There is still one known issue with transferring
conffiles between packages under certain conditions, but I believe
that I have a solid plan to deal with that and I just need to
implement it. There are probably other smaller issues with
dependencies and such, but I think that the overall "shape" of the
end result is near-final.

The git history is still a complete mess though, and I really need to
polish that up before I feel comfortable asking the poor reviewers to
wade through it O:-)

So, here's my proposal: in two weeks' time, i.e. by September 25, I
will upload a version of libvirt that includes both the restructuring
and the usr-merge bits to experimental.

This upload will not be prepared from the official git repository,
but from my own fork. This removes the need to have all changes
squeaky-clean and reviewed before we can proceed, and allows us to
move forward with whatever I have ready at the time.

The idea is that this will give dumat a chance to validate the whole
ordeal and ensure that users will not run into file loss scenarios.
If any issue is detected, we'll have the opportunity to rectify it;
if not, we can feel safer about taking a bit longer to polish and
land the restructuring.

I will of course endeavor to get the branch in a reviewable shape, or
as close to that as possible, before then.

Does this plan sound reasonable?

-- 
Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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