runstatedir matters when using debhelper tools in Artful

runstatedir matters when using debhelper tools in Artful

[Mark Pryor]

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Hello,
When finishing a debianised build of xen-4.10~rc1 in Artful I had no extra patches, so I left outthis patch below that I used to build xen-4.9 in Artful:

https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-09/msg01424.html
When `dpkg -i xen_4.10~rc1-artful2_amd64.deb` is run, the systemd symlink links should get written to /etc/systemd/system/multi*, but now this failed, unlike the xen-4.9 equivalent package.
When it works (patch is applied) it looks like below
paste.debian.net/plain/991667
When it fails there are no systemd symlinks written and the package install is broken.
Nobody might notice if the runstatedir variable is missing from config/Paths.mk, but if you build Xen with a debian-delta and use debhelper it matters (in Artful or Buster).
PryMar56##xen-packaging

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Re: runstatedir matters when using debhelper tools in Artful

[Wei Liu]

CC Ian who know debhelper better.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:49:06PM +0000, Mark Pryor wrote:
> Hello,
> When finishing a debianised build of xen-4.10~rc1 in Artful I had no extra patches, so I left outthis patch below that I used to build xen-4.9 in Artful:
> 
> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-09/msg01424.html
> When `dpkg -i xen_4.10~rc1-artful2_amd64.deb` is run, the systemd symlink links should get written to /etc/systemd/system/multi*, but now this failed, unlike the xen-4.9 equivalent package.
> When it works (patch is applied) it looks like below
> paste.debian.net/plain/991667
> When it fails there are no systemd symlinks written and the package install is broken.
> Nobody might notice if the runstatedir variable is missing from config/Paths.mk, but if you build Xen with a debian-delta and use debhelper it matters (in Artful or Buster).
> PryMar56##xen-packaging

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Re: runstatedir matters when using debhelper tools in Artful

[Ian Jackson]

Wei Liu writes ("Re: runstatedir matters when using debhelper tools in Artful"):
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:49:06PM +0000, Mark Pryor wrote:
> > Hello,
> > When finishing a debianised build of xen-4.10~rc1 in Artful I had no extra patches, so I left outthis patch below that I used to build xen-4.9 in Artful:
> > 
> > https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-09/msg01424.html
> > When `dpkg -i xen_4.10~rc1-artful2_amd64.deb` is run, the systemd symlink links should get written to /etc/systemd/system/multi*, but now this failed, unlike the xen-4.9 equivalent package.
> > When it works (patch is applied) it looks like below
> > paste.debian.net/plain/991667
> > When it fails there are no systemd symlinks written and the package install is broken.
> > Nobody might notice if the runstatedir variable is missing from config/Paths.mk, but if you build Xen with a debian-delta and use debhelper it matters (in Artful or Buster).

This is mysterious to me.  Nothing in the upstream tree mentions
"runstatedir", according to git-grep.  I'm not sure how your 4.10~rc1
was constructed, though.

And runstatedir is surely something in /var, anyway.

Are you sure about the cause and effect here ?

Ian.

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