[Bug 1694159] Re: Complete libvirt migration to Debian style packaging (dependencies, conffiles)

[ChristianEhrhardt]

Interrupt on the kimchi Discussion from the Mail thread - quoting
Frederic who uploaded what we have atm.

"Hi Christian,
I mainly worked on packaging kimchi/ginger and the other ones after the
project split the source in other components (wok, ginger-base in
addition to kimchi and ginger) so I'm not part of the
development team and I then transfered that knowledge to a member of the
kimchi team who was supposed to pursue the packaging for kimchi 2 but
that packaging effort was discontinued as stated in the last comments of
those debian ITP bugs : 847102 847105 847108 772823 775747 846595 846598
Last update for Ubuntu was in the PPA :
https://launchpad.net/~ibmpackages/+archive/ubuntu/kimchi-project/
before Lucio Correia announced the end of the packaging effort.

I feel like the project is not [very] active anymore :
http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/meetings/
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/kimchi-devel/
https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/commits/master

Several people asked me questions about the .deb etc and I had no
other answer than "no support from upstream anymore, no news either".
So I guess removing may be the only solution. It would be nice to have
some feedback from upstream before that though."

That is another +0.75 to remove it.
Waiting a bit more if others chime in.

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Title:
  Complete libvirt migration to Debian style packaging (dependencies,
  conffiles)

Status in ginger package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in kimchi package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in nova package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-virt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in uvtool package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in virt-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libvirt package in Debian:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  TL;DR:
  - post Xenial the transition was made to match Debian packaging
  - among those changes a bigger one is the split of libvirt-bin into libvirt-daemon-system, libvirt-daemon, libvirt-clients
  - libvirt-bin became a transitional package
  - on that transition not all reverse dependencies were fixed
  - also several conffiles where renamed, dropped or moved packag owning it
  We need to:
  - fix dependencies to match the new packaging so we can drop the transitional one day
  - damage on the conffiles is done, but clean up as good as possible especially with the potential yet-unaffected LTS->LTS upgrades in mind.

  ----

  While investigating libvirt/dnsmasq interactions for bug #1694156, I
  noticed that I had redundant files under /etc/dnsmasq.d from libvirt-
  daemon-system and libvirt-bin.  Looking at the status of the libvirt-
  bin package, I see the following:

  Package: libvirt-bin
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: extra
  Section: oldlibs
  [...]
  Conffiles:
   /etc/default/virtlockd de3684752181bda812f7bf4ef983654c obsolete
   /etc/default/libvirt-bin 619ef67a86531f89f4cf45efde87cb82 obsolete
   /etc/init/libvirt-bin.conf e946cc33fb1161ab19eddccfe526cee5 obsolete
   /etc/dnsmasq.d-available/libvirt-bin bbf7e62e130a4cb7b6db7c4260883a68 obsolete
   /etc/libvirt/libvirt-admin.conf 7c1bbeb439d79ec32ff7d18cb1364e2f obsolete
   /etc/cron.daily/libvirt-bin 21a4c092781e8119b8d5aa9d9d3d9f8b obsolete
   /etc/apparmor.d/libvirt/TEMPLATE 0d5580a22d95fc622cd5b8efe54b8757 obsolete
   /etc/dnsmasq.d/libvirt-bin bbf7e62e130a4cb7b6db7c4260883a68 obsolete

  I see that this is a transitional package, but if the libvirt-bin
  package is going to be built at all from the source, it should be
  taking care to remove the obsolete conffiles on upgrade.  This should
  be done now, even though the actual obsolescence happened some time
  ago.

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