control: reassign -1 collectd
control: retitle -1 collectd should be updated for libsensors5
control: severity -1 serious

On 2018-12-24 01:11, Xavier Guerrin wrote:
> Package: lm-sensors
> Version: 1:3.5.0-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> It does not seem possible to install both libsensors4 and libsensors5 as
> "apt install libsensors5" will remove libsensors4. This is apparently due to
> libsensors-config, which is marked as breaking and replacing libsensors4.

True.

> Alas, this package does not effectively replace libsensors4 since it no longer
> provides libsensors.so.4. This has the side-effect of breaking collectd's
> "sensors" plugin, which relies on libsensors.so.4:
>   $ dpkg -L collectd-core | grep sensors
>   /usr/lib/collectd/sensors.so
>   $ ldd /usr/lib/collectd/sensors.so
>           linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe949f2000)
>           libsensors.so.4 => not found
>           libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc8b4c44000)
>           /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc8b4e21000)

This is clearly a bug of collectd which should be updated to use
libsensors5. I am therefore reassigning the bug to this package.

> Another option is to remove libsensors5.. but doing so removes lxqt (through
> lxqt-panel, which explicitly depends on libsensors5).
 
> Is there a significant impediment preventing libsensors4 and libsensors5 from
> living together on the same system?

Yes, bug #915873 which causes the sensors.conf configuration file to be
lost during the upgrade:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915873

Aurelien

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