This bug has now caused xfsdump to be kicked out of testing which is making
amanda unbuildable in testing.
Yes, what's really needed here is for a change to be merged upstream
(as all other deb packaging artifacts are) otherwise this will keep
getting lost in time.
To make it easier to upstream this I whipped up a patch that should solve the
issue while only modifying the debian packaging and not touching the upstream
makefiles. It is attached to this message and if I get no response I will
likely do some further testing and then NMU it in Debian.
One issue I noticed is it's not all all obvious who upstream is. The sgi
website listed in README seems to be long dead and there are no obvious
upstream results in a google search for xfsdump. Gentoos page on xfsdump links
to https://xfs.wiki.kernel.org but that page makes no mention of xfsdump.
I eventually poked around on git.kernel.org and my best guess is that
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsdump-dev.git/ is the upstream git
repository and linux-...@vger.kernel.org is the appropriate mailing list, I
would appreciate comments on whether or not this is correct and updates to the
documentation to reflect whatever the correct location is.
diff -Nru xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/changelog xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/changelog
--- xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/changelog 2020-01-31 17:30:58.000000000 +0000
+++ xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/changelog 2020-06-19 01:01:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+xfsdump (3.1.9+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Create and remove symlinks in postinst/preinst rather than including them
+ in the package to support merged user systems. Based on a patch from
+ Goffredo Baroncelli but adjusted to avoid the need for modifying upstream
+ non-debian files. ( Closes: 953537 )
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugw...@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 2020 01:01:18 +0000
+
xfsdump (3.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release
diff -Nru xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/rules xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/rules
--- xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/rules 2020-01-31 17:30:58.000000000 +0000
+++ xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/rules 2020-06-19 01:01:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
-rm -rf $(dirme)
$(pkgme) $(MAKE) -C . install
$(pkgme) $(MAKE) dist
+ #remove the symlinks in /usr/sbin, the postinst will create them
+ #if appropriate for the users system
+ rm -f debian/xfsdump/usr/sbin/xfsdump debian/xfsdump/usr/sbin/xfsrestore
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_strip
diff -Nru xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/xfsdump.postinst
xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/xfsdump.postinst
--- xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/xfsdump.postinst 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000
+0000
+++ xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/xfsdump.postinst 2020-06-19 00:59:32.000000000
+0000
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ "$1" = 'configure' ]; then
+ for file in xfsdump xfsrestore; do
+ if [ ! -e /usr/sbin/$file ]; then
+ ln -s /sbin/$file /usr/sbin/$file
+ fi
+ done
+fi
+
+#DEBHELPER#
diff -Nru xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/xfsdump.preinst
xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/xfsdump.preinst
--- xfsdump-3.1.9/debian/xfsdump.preinst 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000
+0000
+++ xfsdump-3.1.9+nmu1/debian/xfsdump.preinst 2020-06-19 01:01:18.000000000
+0000
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ "$1" = 'remove' ]; then
+ for file in xfsdump xfsrestore; do
+ if [ -L /usr/sbin/$file ]; then
+ rm /usr/sbin/$file
+ fi
+ done
+fi
+
+#DEBHELPER#
