Bug#921187: Getting rid of rdepends on libxenmisc4.X so we can do backports

I see the mail thread 'RFC: qemu and Xen ABI-unstable libs' on the upstream xen-devel mailing list did not get referenced from this Debian bug yet: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2020-09/threads.html#01299 It contains a lot of info about the actual work that needs to be d

Bug#921187: Getting rid of rdepends on libxenmisc4.X so we can do backports

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:41:17 +0100 Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > ...led me here... > > https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/commit/a6a863e912bf03bb321dead3a98c755951665ced That commit added the do-not-link-everything-with-xen.patch That patch got removed in a commit named 'update for v4.1'. h

Bug#921187: Getting rid of rdepends on libxenmisc4.X so we can do backports

FYI this... https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-01/msg01696.html ...led me here... https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/commit/a6a863e912bf03bb321dead3a98c755951665ced ...which resulted in... https://packages.debian.org/sid/qemu-system-x86 ...which still depends on li

Bug#921187: Getting rid of rdepends on libxenmisc4.X so we can do backports

Actually, On 2/2/19 9:25 PM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > Currently, these are rdepends: > > -$ apt-cache rdepends libxenmisc4.11 > libxenmisc4.11 > Reverse Depends: > libxen-dev > xen-utils-4.11 > collectd > qemu-system-x86 > libvirt-daemon > collectd-core > > It's on the wishlis

Bug#921187: Getting rid of rdepends on libxenmisc4.X so we can do backports

Package: src:xen Version: 4.11.1-1 Currently, these are rdepends: -$ apt-cache rdepends libxenmisc4.11 libxenmisc4.11 Reverse Depends: libxen-dev xen-utils-4.11 collectd qemu-system-x86 libvirt-daemon collectd-core It's on the wishlist to start doing buster-backports for Xen. If the