Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
Hi. This is the update from Xen 4.6 to Xen 4.8, as previously
discussed. (Currently, Xen 4.8.0 RC3. I expect the Xen 4.8.0 release
to be out by the time Debian freezes.)
libxen-* contains libraries needed for management tools. The
corresponding xen-utils-* packages are intended to be coinstallable,
so perhaps a "smooth" transition may still be possible ? (Contrary to
what the autogenerated transition tracker thinks.)
All that is needed from the build-rdeps is a rebuild. That is, of:
libvirt qemu xenwatch python-pyxenstore collectd grub2
I have checked that they all build against the new libxen{-4.8,-dev},
at least on amd64. I don't anticipate trouble on other architectures.
I am filing this transition bug now even though the armhf buildd has
yet to get to the package. It seems like it nearly 4 days behind
right now. Instead, I have verified on a porterbox that the armhf
build is successful. I hope that is sufficient.
I think the Ben file generated by reportbug from my responses to the
prompts is about right.
Thanks for your attention. Please let me know if I have done anything
wrong. This is the first time I have been responsible for a
transition.
Thanks,
Ian.
Ben file:
title = "xen";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libxen-4.6" | .depends ~
"libxen-4.8";
is_good = .depends ~ "libxen-4.8";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libxen-4.6";
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)