[Pkg-xen-devel] ITP for XCP toolstack (xapi) on Debian

[Thomas Goirand]

On 10/26/2011 05:29 AM, Mike McClurg wrote:
> Perhaps you could send us a private deb file to test? I'm worried that
> this might not be the right version that we need. Can you point us at
> the upstream code you used?

I used what was in the Git at:

http://github.com/jonludlam/blktap.git

The clone was made about a month ago, and it would be hard for me to
tell when exactly. Adding version numbers will certainly help everyone
here...

There are many differences between my package and the one from Jon at
http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/debian/repo/debian/pool/main/b/blktap/.
I'll try summarize differences here:

1/ I didn't name the binary packages the same. Library package names
*MUST* (by policy, IIRC) include the SONAME version in their package
names. So my source package builds:

blktap
- libvhd1.0
- libvhdio1.0
- libblktapctl1.0
- blktap-dev
- blktap-utils

I was really not sure of the version number, so "1.0" might not be what
we should use here. However, a version number should be there, and if I
remember well, 1.0 was the internal SONAME of the libs.

I have only one -dev and one -utils package. I think that's enough, no?
Why splitting into more packages?

2/ Everywhere, I have Architecture: i386, and not just "any" since it
wont work on other platforms anyway (Mike or Jon told me that amd64 wont
be supported).

3/ *My* debian/copyright is correct ... :) Please don't even try to
upload your blktap with such copyright, or accept the flames from the
ftp-masters... :)

4/ There's still few lintian warnings in my package, the only one I'm
really concerned with is:

E: libblktapctl1.0: sharedobject-in-library-directory-missing-soname
usr/lib/libblktapctl.so.1.0
N:
N: A shared object was identified in a library directory (a directory in
N: the standard linker path) which doesn't have a SONAME. This is usually
N: an error.
N:
N: SONAMEs are set with something like gcc -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.0, where 0
N: is the major version of the library. If your package uses libtool, then
N: libtool invoked with the right options should be doing this.
N:
N: To view the SONAME of a shared library, run readelf -d on the shared
N: library and look for the tag of type SONAME.
N:
N: Severity: important, Certainty: possible
N:
N: Check: shared-libs, Type: binary, udeb

That one must be fixed before upload for sure.

5/ Please check my work:
I've put the resulting binary and source packages here:

http://node4407.gplhost.com/blktap/

Please let me know if:
- if version are correct
- if you think my package is ok
- when you correct the above lintian warning, so I can pull again from
github and re-create an orig.tar.gz

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)