[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#842919: transition: xen

[Ian Jackson]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

Hi.  This is the update from Xen 4.6 to Xen 4.8, as previously
discussed.  (Currently, Xen 4.8.0 RC3.  I expect the Xen 4.8.0 release
to be out by the time Debian freezes.)

libxen-* contains libraries needed for management tools.   The
corresponding xen-utils-* packages are intended to be coinstallable,
so perhaps a "smooth" transition may still be possible ?  (Contrary to
what the autogenerated transition tracker thinks.)

All that is needed from the build-rdeps is a rebuild.  That is, of:
  libvirt qemu xenwatch python-pyxenstore collectd grub2

I have checked that they all build against the new libxen{-4.8,-dev},
at least on amd64.  I don't anticipate trouble on other architectures.

I am filing this transition bug now even though the armhf buildd has
yet to get to the package.  It seems like it nearly 4 days behind
right now.  Instead, I have verified on a porterbox that the armhf
build is successful.  I hope that is sufficient.

I think the Ben file generated by reportbug from my responses to the
prompts is about right.

Thanks for your attention.  Please let me know if I have done anything
wrong.  This is the first time I have been responsible for a
transition.

Thanks,
Ian.


Ben file:

title = "xen";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libxen-4.6" | .depends ~ "libxen-4.8";
is_good = .depends ~ "libxen-4.8";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libxen-4.6";


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)