Am 16.07.2014 18:49, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > Il 16/07/2014 18:28, Stefan Weil ha scritto: >> Debian testing includes a brand new libiscsi, but it >> does not include libiscsi.pc, so pkg-config won't know that it is >> available and configure will disable libiscsi. > > That's a packaging bug.
CC'ing Michael as he is the Debian maintainer of this package and Aurélien who maintains QEMU for Debian. Michael, should I send a Debian bug report for libiscsi-dev? Would an update of libiscsi for Debian stable be reasonable if versions older than 1.9 are too buggy to be used? I must admit that I'm a little bit surprised because iSCSI support worked for me quite well the last time I used it with Debian wheezy. Regards Stefan > >> I have a patch which >> fixes this, so QEMU for Debian testing could include libiscsi again. >> >> Is a feature regression like this one acceptable? Do we need additional >> testing (maybe run the build bots with --enable-xxx, so builds fail when >> xxx no longer works)? > > As mentioned in the e49ab19fcaa617ad6cdfe1ac401327326b6a2552 commit > message, this was intentional. I was reluctant to do it, but ultimately > Peter Lieven convinced me that it isn't just about using fancy new APIs; > libiscsi was too buggy to be useful until release 1.8.0 (even 1.9.0 > requires a patch to avoid segfaults, and many more if you want to run it > on ARM). > > Paolo
