[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Please unblock libvirt 0.4.6-9

[Guido Günther]

Hi Luk,
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:52:47PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > [..snip..]
> >> So including the one in unstable is probably not going to happen.
> >> Removing 0.4.4 because you're too lame to fix an easy RC bug is also not
> > Thanks a lot for your kindness. I first requested the move of 0.4.6 to
> > Lenny about 6 weeks ago. Nobody even bothered to reply, not to that mail
> > nor to any of the followups.
> 
> Sorry, though you send mixed signals and expect us to review a very
> large diff...
I tried to offer choice a while back (going with either 0.4.4 or
0.4.6) - sorry if this came across as mixed signals.

> >> an option to me... so feel free to propose a tpu upload that would fix
> >> the RC bug as well as this security issue.
> > Every bug in the BTS that affected 0.4.6 affects 0.4.4 - there's really
> > no point in keeping 0.4.4. Please pull it from testing and let's release
> > without libvirt.
> 
> What were these about:
> 
> "Should there be any problems we can easily pull back to 0.4.4"
This just meant: 0.4.6 is ABI compatible to 0.4.4 but *should* there be
any incompatibility we can switch back to 0.4.4.

> "0.4.4 currently has an (though easy to fix) RC bug, so if the changes
> >> for 0.4.6 are to intrusive please remove 0.4.4 from Lenny to get rid of
> >> this issue."
> 
> Can you please explain what bugs in 0.4.4 are critical enough to not
> consider a backported fix and remove libvirt from the release, TIA.
Here's a quick list of bugs fixed in 0.4.6-10 but not in 0.4.4-3:

RC:
#509106   - CVE-2008-5086
#481619   - libvirtd loses connection to domain if started two times
            (crashes the running domain)
#507553   - missing logfile rotation (overflows the disk easily when
            running colltectd or munin)
#507578   - doesn't work with /var/run on tmpfs
[c07c68f] - prefer xenstoraged driver for listDomains - avoids seeing
	    "ghost domains" due to bugs in several versions of the xen HV,
            without this libvirt isn't usable with lenny's xen 
[87fc2db] - don't let suspend/resume fail silently (possible data loss)
upstream  - fix qemu media connect/eject to work with latest syntax. Add support
	    for ejecting floppy devices and scsi cdroms including a fix
            for a daemon crash (possible data loss)
upstream  - fixes several crashes in the storage backend (possible data
            loss)

Important:
#507608   - serial console with kvm/qemu doesn't work
#499718   - fails to install windows (fixed in 0.4.6, but we didn't
            identify the commit that fixed this)
#507547   - don't fail if no hypervisor is given in the domain's xml

Normal:
#499720   - fails to install VMs from CD/DVD
#495950   - assumes kvm can't do smp
#505607   - fix compilation with gcc 4.4
[06dbe8a] - working domain block stats for virtio and scsi devices
upstream  - usb device passthrough
upstream  - domU shutdown fixes

[.......] are git commits which can be browsed at
	https://honk.sigxcpu.org/cl2vcs/index.cgi?pkg=libvirt

Hope this helps.
 -- Guido