[Debian] Re: lenny updates

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Kir

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:27:55PM +0300, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> Since it's gonna be ABI++ anyway, we'd like to take a look at what we 
> have in git and maybe recommend some other critical/important bugfixes. 
> Ideally we'd like Debian to just pull from our git (i.e. merge all the 
> patches we have there), but as I understand this is not how things are 
> working here.

For "normal" packages we can only provide small changes. I assume the
same rule apply to kernel updates as well.

> So, will it be helpful / worth it if we come with such a list of highly 
> recommended patches?

Absolutely! We can document them in separate bug reports if needed.

Best regards,

// Ola

> dann frazier wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:44:04PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >  
> >>Hi Dann
> >>
> >>You asked about the latest status and here it is.
> >>Please tell which ones you want me to fix for the next lenny release of 
> >>the kernel. I'll prepare
> >>a patch and regression test that version for you.
> >>    
> >
> >Wow Ola, thanks - great detail. I'll look this over and get back to
> >you.
> >
> >  
> >>#510787:
> >>Refers to an other bug report that was not openvz specific. Should it be
> >>forwarded to an non-openvz version of the kernel or kept here?
> >>In any case I have added latest information to the report and told where
> >>the problem has been forwarded.
> >>
> >>#511165:
> >>Patch exist for 2.6.24 and 2.6.26. Fix is available in
> >>http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=b5e1f74cee5bc2c45bdca53a7218fb8de89215dd
> >>Not sure if this is an ABI breaker.
> >>
> >>#500876:
> >>Fix available in:
> >>http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=777e8164ebf8a03e43511983cdec472f8691a8af
> >>Problem is about to be verified. Regression tested without problems seen.
> >>
> >>#503097:
> >>Reported as http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930
> >>Seems to be a duplicate of #500876 above.
> >>
> >>#505174:
> >>This is a request to go up to the latest version that includes fixes for
> >>all the ones in this mail that describe that there is a fix available.
> >>Unfortunatly there are ABI breakers...
> >>
> >>#508773:
> >>Patch available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054
> >>Fix in 
> >>http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.24-openvz;a=commit;h=20bd90762d4df4a3c7c247b660c696bdd0a27709
> >>Do not look like an ABI breaker to me.
> >>
> >>#500145:
> >>Forwarded to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143
> >>Marked as dupliate of http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067
> >>Not solved yet.
> >>
> >>#501985:
> >>From: maximilian attems
> >>the upstream nfs fixes are abi breakers and thus can't be integrated
> >>at this point they will be for the first point release were abi
> >>breaking will be allowed again.
> >>
> >>#494445:
> >>There are a number of problems in this area. Fixes are available.
> >>However some of them are ABI breakers.
> >>
> >>#500645:
> >>Fix available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
> >>http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=6d18ba377cfa3e86ee830fe6a5fce52b8fd51039
> >>I can not see that this is an ABI breaker, so it should be possibly to
> >>apply this one without problem.
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>
> >>// Ola
> >>
> >>On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:47:35PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> >>    
> >>>hey,
> >>> The first lenny update	is scheduled for early	April, so I wanted to
> >>>start coordinating the kernel update.
> >>>
> >>>Security
> >>>--------
> >>>The lenny-security branch is currently caught up on security issues,
> >>>so I'd like to release a DSA later this week. I'd appreciate it if the
> >>>individual arch maintainers could test builds from this branch ahead
> >>>of time. The CVE-2009-0029 touch a lot of arch-specific code and
> >>>though they applied pretty easily to the lenny kernel, it'd still be
> >>>good to get some testing there. I noticed that the snapshot archive
> >>>now has a lenny-security dist for some archs (thanks waldi)
> >>>
> >>>Stable
> >>>------
> >>>There are several fixes queued up for a stable upload. I have a
> >>>few more small fixes from jmm to review/commit as well, and it looks
> >>>like tbm has an RTC regression fix pending. I've seen mentions of
> >>>OpenVZ fixes from Ola/maks - what is the status of those? Are there
> >>>any other changes people are working on?
> >>>
> >>>ABI changes
> >>>-----------
> >>>The security fixes don't currently break the ABI. It sounds like the
> >>>openvz fixes are ABI-breaking?. If it is going to be ready for this
> >>>update and does break the ABI, I'd also like to get the hppa
> >>>large-module fix in. And, of course, we'll need to notify the d-i team
> >>>of this change.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >
> >  
> 
> 

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