[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#862236: Xen jessie testing

[Stefan Bühler]

On Thu, 11 May 2017 11:00:30 +0100 Ian Jackson
<ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> [...]
> 
> The only place this seems to be used is to prepend it to
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in force during execution of the hotplug scripts.
> 
> This is inherited from upstream, where it is needed (I think) so that
> in non-packaged builds of Xen, on non-Debian systems, the Xen
> libraries in /usr/local are found when trying to execute the Xen tools
> inside the hotplug scripts.
> 
> Our dynamic linker is clever enough to ignore irrelevant files, so I
> think this is largely harmless.  Of course the noise in /etc ought to
> be got rid of.

[...reordered...]

> I think such a change is buster material.  For now, I suggest that I
> continue to build security updates for jessie on i386 as I am able to
> conveniently test that.
> [...]
> Obviously, feel free to try to convince me
> that this is RC for stretch.  I wouldn't want to let this slide if
> it's going to cause real trouble.

You are probably right: if it would have broken something, you'd have
gotten more reports by now.  So your conclusion sounds fine to me.

> I think this should be fixed by not dropping this setting (and
> probably the consequent LD_LIBRARY_PATH too).  Ideally via some kind
> of upstream knob but if not by a Debian patch.

> If I need to do another update to stretch (eg, a security update)
> before its release, I will simply drop this line from this file.
> 
> Does that plan seem good ?

Yes.

Thanks for looking into this!

cheers,
Stefan