Processed: Re: [Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#865628: Please add information about this incompatibility to the installation/upgrading guide

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

reassign 865628 release-notes

Bug #865628 [iscsitarget] iscsitarget: Starting ... FATAL: Module iscsi_trgt not found in /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64
Bug reassigned from package 'iscsitarget' to 'release-notes'.
No longer marked as found in versions iscsitarget/1.4.20.3+svn502-1.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #865628 to the same values previously set

forcemerge 865632 865628

Bug #865632 [release-notes] release-notes: document that 'iscsitarget' was dropped in Stretch
Bug #865628 [release-notes] iscsitarget: Starting ... FATAL: Module iscsi_trgt not found in /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64
Merged 865628 865632

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

reassign 865628 release-notes

Bug #865628 [release-notes] iscsitarget: Starting ... FATAL: Module iscsi_trgt not found in /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64
Bug #865632 [release-notes] release-notes: document that 'iscsitarget' was dropped in Stretch
Ignoring request to reassign bug #865628 to the same package
Ignoring request to reassign bug #865632 to the same package

forcemerge 865632 865628

Bug #865632 [release-notes] release-notes: document that 'iscsitarget' was dropped in Stretch
Bug #865628 [release-notes] iscsitarget: Starting ... FATAL: Module iscsi_trgt not found in /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64
Bug #865628 [release-notes] iscsitarget: Starting ... FATAL: Module iscsi_trgt not found in /lib/modules/4.9.0-3-amd64
Merged 865628 865632

[Christian Seiler]

Control: reassign 865628 release-notes
Control: forcemerge 865632 865628

Hi,

I hit this issue as well after upgrading to Stretch, and I don't
consider mentioning such a major incompatibility in the bug only to
be appropriate. I have actually read the relevant parts of the
upgrading guide,>
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html
but it did not mention anything about iscsitarget being deprecated,
so the resulting service interruption came as a surprise.
At a minimum, please make sure that this deprecation information is
added to the documentation above, to prevent others from hitting the
same issue unexpectedly.

I had already opened a bug report against the 'release-notes'
pseudo-package to ask for this information to be included in the
release notes back in June, including a proposed wording, which
was then improved upon by someone else:

https://bugs.debian.org/865632

Unfortunately this hasn't been added to the SVN repository yet.
I'm merging this report to avoid further confusion and I'm CC'ing
the release team to bump the priority of this issue.

Regards,
Christian