Re: [Libguestfs] Ubuntu needs to upgrade supermin

Richard W.M. Jones
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:04:30 -0000

Please keep replies on the mailing list.

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 05:43:14AM -0500, Donald Harter
wrote:
> I tried to build it from the ubuntu source rpm.  It requires package
> debhelper >=10
> What I have is
> ii  debhelper                                       9.20160115ubuntu3
>
> I have the latest stable release so it requires an unstable release.
> I could try to do the same for debhelper but that may require even
> more newer "unstable" packages.

The best bet is simply to backport the single patch you need:


https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commit/158854e3ba4be7f6b8d81f662ddad98358ede1de

This should apply fine to the older version of supermin.

By the way, there has now been a bug opened in launchpad about this:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1743300

Rich.

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