Package: libvirt0 Version: 0.9.12.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The libvirt configure script has a special feature especially for distro vendors to use when building binary packages which lets them encode a bit of information about the builds, which then ends up in log files. This does not appear to be used in Ubuntu builds which makes it impossible to determine exactly which particular build of libvirt was used by the bug reporter
For example, on Debian currently if you turn on libvirt logging you'll see a message like this: 2014-06-27 15:12:33.274+0000: 20830: info : libvirt version: 0.9.12.3 By comparison on Fedora / RHEL systems you'd see something like this: 2014-06-27 16:30:33.837+0000: 2454: info : libvirt version: 1.2.2, package: 1.fc20 (Unknown, 2014-06-27-15:41:14, mustard.redhat.com) In particular notice that it includes the precise RPM release number, so that you can figure out exactly which binary package the bug reporter used. eg on Debian this would any part of the version which Debian appends after the main upstream version number Debian packages could set this doing something like this when=`date +"%%F-%%T"` where=`hostname` who="Unknown" (or name of the person or entity doing the build) what="1" (or whatever current build is) ./configure --with-packager="$who $when $where" \ --with-packager-version="$what" \ ...other args to configure... And then check that this has then propagated to the log messages Also reported to Ubuntu maintainer as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1335221 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.33-kvm-i386-20111128-dirty (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libvirt0 depends on: ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-2 ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-2 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1 ii libcap-ng0 0.6.6-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1+deb7u1 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.74-8 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u1 ii libgnutls26 2.12.20-8+deb7u2 ii libnetcf1 0.1.9-2 ii libnl1 1.1-7 ii libnuma1 2.0.8~rc4-1 ii libpcap0.8 1.3.0-1 ii libsasl2-2 2.1.25.dfsg1-6+deb7u1 ii libxenstore3.0 4.1.4-3+deb7u1 ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu3 ii libyajl2 2.0.4-2 Versions of packages libvirt0 recommends: ii lvm2 2.02.95-8 libvirt0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org