Control: tags -1 + confirmed (Cc'ing util-linux and selinux maintainers.)
On 08/13/2016 07:08 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > partman-iscsi and open-iscsi-udeb are no longer installable since the > latter now depends on libmount1-udeb, which was dropped in 2014 (see > https://bugs.debian.org/723168). [ summary of #723168: libmount1-udeb was dropped because it had no rdep at that time, and it now depended on libselinux, which didn't have an udeb at the time and still doesn't ] Yikes. I'm terribly sorry I didn't catch that. :-( Note that libmount1-udeb is not explicitly listed as a dependency, but added via substvars automatically. And since libmount-dev needs to explicitly have the udeb in its shlibs, once I saw the automatic dependency in the udeb, I assumed that libmount1-udeb would just exist. (I think the udeb: line in the shlibs file of libmount is still there, even though the udeb was removed.) The question is: what's the best fix for that? - libmount is now a hard dependency of open-iscsi. It's not critical functionality (it's a new safety feature to not log out of sessions that still have mounted file systems, which is not that important in a d-i environment), and I could easily patch it out. OTOH, I seriously doubt upstream will want to make libmount optional. (Especially since it's from util-linux, which is really a base package.) - OTOH, this affects more than just one package As a short term fix I could build open-iscsi twice, once with and once without the libmount dependency. But I really don't want to carry a Debian-specific patch that removes libmount forever, so the proper solution would be to coordinate with util-linux and selinux to have both of them (selinux first) provide udebs for the libraries. (I doubt that util-linux maintainers want to build util-linux twice either.) So I'd probably want to do the following: Step 1: build open-iscsi twice, once with libmount patched out (closing this bug) Step 2: file bugs against util-linux and libselinux to have them build udebs (I can provide patches) Step 3: make open-iscsi-udeb depend on libmount1-udeb again Is that agreeable? Regards, Christian
