[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#905772: libvirtd upgrade broken stretch->buster

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:18:18PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi Sam
> 
> Am 15.04.2019 um 20:38 schrieb Sam Hartman:
> > control: severity -1 serious
> > 
> > justification: libvirtd upgrades from stretch to buster break causing
> > apt to fail and requiring the admin to get the systemd units into a
> > consistent state before things can continue
> > 
> > 
> > Unfortunately based on discussion so far this is a complex bug to fix.
> > Ubuntu's solution is to drop the sysv scripts and to drop  Also= lines
> > in some of the units.
> > 
> > The systemd maintainers proposed that dropping Also as well as some
> > changes to move toward dh_systemd_start being used even when sysvinit
> > scripts are present would help this situation.  Unfortunately it at
> > least doesn't look like those changes are in debhelper for buster.
> > Systemd folks, do you have any suggestions  on how to approach this for
> > buster?
> 
> Using debhelper compat level 12, you are able to completely decouple
> dh_installinit and dh_installsystemd which would give you the ability to
> implement what you want afaics.

So let's move libvirt from 8 to 12 for stretch? I'm all for it but it'll
be a couple of days until I can set time aside for this.
cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
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