[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#912441: Bug#912441: xen-utils-4.11: package missing pygrub binaries

[Hans van Kranenburg]

reassign 912441 src:xen 4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-5
severity 912381 important
merge 912381 912441
thanks

On 10/31/2018 07:51 PM, Joshua M. Boniface wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On 2018-10-31 12:39 p.m., Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
>> tags 912441 + pending
>> thanks
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/31/2018 04:44 PM, Joshua M. Boniface wrote:
>>> Package: xen-utils-4.11
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> We have discovered that the `pygrub` binaries, expected under
>>> `/usr/lib/xen-4.11/bin`, are no longer present in the xen-utils-4.11
>>> package.
>> Thanks for testing the package.
>>
>> The file is indeed missing, while it should be there.
>>
>>> Reviewing the source package reveals that the binary is still present
>>> under `tools/pygrub/src/pygrub`, however it is not referenced anywhere
>>> obvious in the package build configurations, nor is there any changelog
>>> indication that it has been moved or removed.
>> There's an exclude in debian/rules, which is too broad.
>>
>> The fix:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/commit/d4b0d104f158217036c779e2c7f608d659e01f59
>>
>>
>>  From your comments, I suspect you already grabbed the file from the
>> source package to get a working environment again, for now?
> 
> I did attempt this, but it looks like there's some other dependencies
> missing when I do so, for instance:
> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/etc/xen/boot/pygrub", line 25, in <module>
>>    import fsimage
>> ImportError: libfsimage.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory

Yes, there's more breakage. There's another bug, #912381, issued just a
bit earlier than your one. There's more info in there already:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912381

Let's continue in there.

> And it looks like the same issue occurs on a rebuild of the packages
> with the fix applied (took the `apt-get source`, modified `rules`).
> 
>>> The other files present in that source directory are installed under
>>> `/usr/lib/xen-4.11/lib/python/grub`, just not the binary.
>>>
>>> [...]

Hans