[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#1005176: xen-utils-4 library dependencies need update

[Elliott Mitchell]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 06:40:23PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> 
> However, I hope you understand that there's no way we can help when you 
> use something else than the actual packages in Debian, do not provide 
> any error messages seen, and describe what you see instead as "it felt 
> like everything wanted to explode".

I'm aware I've got things in a state which is outside the support
envelope.  I was hoping observations might also apply inside the support
envelope.

> For me, Xen 4.16 does run OK on my test servers, FWIW.

That doesn't surprise me, it didn't take long to get things into a
working state for me.  Just I was able to get things into a problematic
state which the packaging is supposed to prevent.


xen-utils-4.16 depends on: libxencall1, libxenevtchn1,
libxenforeignmemory1, libxengnttab1, and libxentoollog1.

On a system being upgraded there will be 3 versions of each of these
libraries available.

4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1
4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1~deb11u1
4.16.0-1~exp1

Issue is the rebuilt xen-hypervisor-4.16 and xen-utils-4.16 could be
installed without updating libxencall1, libxenevtchn1,
libxenforeignmemory1, libxengnttab1, and libxentoollog1.

With the 4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1~deb11u1 versions of libraries things
were broken.  I'm unsure which one(s) was the problem, though the
problem disappeared once all 5 were updated.

That enough for you?


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