Control: retitle -1 xenstore-utils: broken symlink /usr/bin/xenstore-control
This is a bit more complicated: Up to bullseye the binaries in the xenstore-utils package were independent of the running xen version (as the xenstore interface is more or less supposed to be stable). Starting with bookworm the xenstore-control binary is now linked against unstable xen api libraries (libxenguest.so and libxenctrl.so) which are included in the libxenmisc4.17 package. The upstream commit for this change is [1] and the documentation also says that the control command interface is not xen version independent. Because of the additional shared library dependencies our shuffle-binaries script [3] kicks in and sets up the xen-utils-wrapper for xenstore-control. The xen-utils-wrapper is only included in the xen-utils-common package. But adding that dependency would not be enough. It would make the /usr/bin/ xenstore-control symlink not broken, but the wrapper would not find the real binary, as it is included in the xen-utils-4.17 package at the /usr/lib/ xen-4.17/bin/xenstore-control path. Installing only xenstore-utils and xen-utils-common in a dom-U gives the following output when executing xenstore-control: $ xenstore-control ERROR: Can't find version 4.17 of xen utils (maybe xen-utils-4.17 was already removed before rebooting out of Xen 4.17), bailing out! Some options I see for fixing this: [a] make xenstore-utils depend on xen-utils-V [b] move the /usr/bin/xenstore-control symlink to xen-utils-V [c] split the xenstore-utils package in a xen version independent and xen version dependent package. Disadvantage from [a] is that xenstore-utils can also be used inside a dom-U and would pull lots of unused stuff. [c] seems to be a bit overkill for only one binary file, so I currently see [b] as the best option. So does anybody have any opinion, ideas or something else to say about all this? Or any better ideas? [1] https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/commit/7f97193e6aa858df03be501440e0ade8cceb9ec5 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/blob/master/docs/misc/xenstore.txt#L378 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/blob/master/debian/shuffle-binaries
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