[Debian] Please unblock vzctl

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Daniel

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:13:25PM +0100, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> 
> > On 11/08/2010 11:53 PM, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> 
> >>>     Ola, please see
> >>> [1]http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659#c8
> >>>     We can get rid of 'gateway' completely.
> >> Looks good to me. However I'm not sure the debian release team will allow
> >> to remove this completely.
> >>
> >> A thought though. Could it be so that the problem in
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/597876 actually appears again due to the multiple
> >> routes. I have no clue myself, because I have not digged into it but I
> >> thought
> >> you should have something to think of ;-)
> >>
> >> Or do you think the change you describe in
> >> http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659#c8 is so important that I
> >> should confince the release team to allow this change?
> > 
> > No, I just guess it's a cleaner way to fix this bug. Maybe we can ask
> > Daniel (cced)
> > to check if this commit helps with the issue he found.
> 
> It will probably help, since the problem has been with multiple
> gateways, and no (fake) gateway should be fine.
> 
> I was looked at testing the patch, but I find it difficult to apply to
> the Debian package, which does not appear to use any patch system?!

It is using the old patch system in Debian. That is directly apply the
patch to the sources and then the debian patch is automatically
generated.

> Taking the commit might be OK, but does not appear to be required,
> because it should be fixed with the typo being fixed (when unblocked).
> 
> Given the impact of this commit I would tend to not push this - at least
> while completely untested (in the context of the other patches etc).

I think so as well.

> Besides, I would like to see an update with all the little things being
> fixed for/in 3.0.25 - this does not seem to be likely for squeeze, even
> when being released in the next days AFAICS?! - or is there something
> like freeze exceptions in Ubuntu?

I have not heard of any freeze exceptions. But it may exist. The release
team usually do not accept any new upstream versions during the freeze
at all unless it really fix something extremely severe.

Best regards,

// Ola

> 
> Cheers and thanks,
> Daniel
> 

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