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On 04/11/16 01:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes ("Re: Bug#842919: transition: xen"):
>> On 02/11/16 11:47, Ian Jackson wrote:
> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>> The ben tracker only lists qemu and libvirt as rdeps of the binaries
>> that are removed in the new version. Why do the other packages need
>> a rebuild? Do any of them statically link libxen or something?
>
> (Hi. Thanks for your attention. I am somewhat full of wine right
> now, so my answers may be wrong. It seemed better to reply sooner.
> My work hat can produce more sober replies tomorrow:)
>
> I got the list from "build-rdeps". Is it wrong ? It's the list of
> things which have libxen-dev as a build-dep.
>
> Hrm. I looked at xenwatch and python-pyxenstore and though the source
> packages Build-Depend on libxen, the binaries Depend only libxenstore
> whose ABI version and package name have not changed. So I think,
> then, that there is actually no need to recompile those two, although
> it would probably be best to do so as a precaution (in case the ABI
> has unwittingly changed, in which case it would be somewhat better for
> stretch to be internally consistent).
>
> In my test rebuild, collectd.deb Depends libxen-4.8. My apt-cache
> show thinks that sid's current collectd Depends libxen-4.6. I'm not
> sure why a collectd rebuild would not be needed.
>
> grub2 is more complicated. I am going to reply separately about that,
> CC grub2@p.d.o.
Sounds good to me. Please go ahead.
Thanks,
Emilio
