[Pkg-xen-devel] libxen-dev, libxen-4.8: Potential upgrade path issues with regard to qemu

[Stephen Oberholtzer]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 6:23 PM Hans van Kranenburg <hans at knorrie.org>
wrote:

>

Since we didn't get to this yet in the last few days, can you please
> provide more information about what you did to find out why qemu in
> current unstable will depend on the new libxenmisc4.11?
>

(1) apt-get -t unstable install libxen-dev  (installed v4.11)
(2) apt-get source qemu-system-x86
(3) dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
(4) dpkg-deb -I qemu-system-x86_*.deb | grep Depends

I should point out that this is correct: libxenmisc4.11 includes
libxenctrl, which qemu uses for PCI passthrough management (and probably
other things.)
This can be confirmed by running
    ldd debian/qemu-system-x86/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 | grep xen
after the build: libxenctrl is in the list.
(note: that command is from memory; if it doesn't work, use find  -name
'*i386' to get the right path)



> If you want to follow progress around Xen in Debian Unstable, I can
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>

Already there :) That's how I knew that Xen 4.11 had transitioned from
experimental to unstable  -- and the reason I took a close look at the
packaging in the first place.

Now I just need to figure out how to make Gmail *not* default to
top-posting...

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