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[frankie@debian.org: Status of kernel-patches in sarge]
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| Francesco Paolo Lovergine 2005-05-21, 7:51 am |
| The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches
and per-arch patches).
I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune at this stage.
IMHO patches which cannot be applied to debian kernel-sources are almost
unuseful and should be removed from sarge...
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Subject: Status of kernel-patches in sarge
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I'm performing an ongoing activity to check the applicability of current
kernel-patches against sarge kernel-sources for 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.
An almost complete summary is available at
http://people.debian.org/~frankie/k...ches-checks.txt
As you can see, there are a few patches which cannot be used
with neither 2.4.27 nor 2.6.8. Marked patches should be simply RC bugged
and hinted for remove if not aligned properly.
I would also point that too often patch names differes from their kernel-patch names,
without justification. I'm working on a little script to do this kind of
light check automatically, too.
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| Bill Allombert 2005-05-21, 7:51 am |
| On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches
> and per-arch patches).
> I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune at this stage.
> IMHO patches which cannot be applied to debian kernel-sources are almost
> unuseful and should be removed from sarge...
Sometime you can apply them manually even if the apply script fail:
kernel-patch-skas apply fine to 2.4.27 but unfortunately, the apply
script does not know (I use it with 2.4.27 since several months without
any problem).
I should really have NMUed this package months ago...
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| Adrian Bunk 2005-05-21, 5:49 pm |
| On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches
> and per-arch patches).
> I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune at this stage.
> IMHO patches which cannot be applied to debian kernel-sources are almost
> unuseful and should be removed from sarge...
>...
I'd even ask whether all these patches are _really_ required for sarge.
Each of the patches might be broken by a security update for the
kernel and each of them requires security support.
Does sarge e.g. really need a lowlatency patch for kernel 2.4?
> Francesco P. Lovergine
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| Steve Langasek 2005-05-22, 7:47 am |
| On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> The check shown below is almost complete (but for a couple of 2.2 patches
> and per-arch patches).
> I'm asking if mass bug report filing is opportune at this stage.
> IMHO patches which cannot be applied to debian kernel-sources are almost
> unuseful and should be removed from sarge...
I think this is a reasonable thing to do, and the sooner, the better. I
would suggest filing the bugs as grave ("package is unusable or mostly so").
If a maintainer disagrees and believes the patch is still useful in sarge,
he can downgrade (hopefully with an explanation, so we know how to tell in
the future that the package is still fulfilling its purpose). Any of these
patches whose maintainers don't speak up for them can then be pulled before
we release.
Thanks,
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> From: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
> To: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Status of kernel-patches in sarge
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> I'm performing an ongoing activity to check the applicability of current
> kernel-patches against sarge kernel-sources for 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.
>
> An almost complete summary is available at
>
> http://people.debian.org/~frankie/k...ches-checks.txt
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> As you can see, there are a few patches which cannot be used
> with neither 2.4.27 nor 2.6.8. Marked patches should be simply RC bugged
> and hinted for remove if not aligned properly.
>
> I would also point that too often patch names differes from their kernel-patch names,
> without justification. I'm working on a little script to do this kind of
> light check automatically, too.
>
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| Francesco Paolo Lovergine 2005-05-22, 5:49 pm |
| On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:35:59AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
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> I'd even ask whether all these patches are _really_ required for sarge.
>
Eh eh, maybe that could be ask for quite a lot of packages around in sarge :-)
> Each of the patches might be broken by a security update for the
> kernel and each of them requires security support.
>
I'd expect maintainers drop patches which are orphaned by the upstream
or whose maintainance would be a problem...
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| Francesco Paolo Lovergine 2005-05-22, 5:49 pm |
| On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
>
> I think this is a reasonable thing to do, and the sooner, the better. I
> would suggest filing the bugs as grave ("package is unusable or mostly so").
> If a maintainer disagrees and believes the patch is still useful in sarge,
> he can downgrade (hopefully with an explanation, so we know how to tell in
> the future that the package is still fulfilling its purpose). Any of these
> patches whose maintainers don't speak up for them can then be pulled before
> we release.
>
Yes, this appears reasonable to me.
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| Adrian Bunk 2005-05-30, 7:53 am |
| On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:02:06PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:35:59AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> Eh eh, maybe that could be ask for quite a lot of packages around in sarge :-)
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> I'd expect maintainers drop patches which are orphaned by the upstream
> or whose maintainance would be a problem...
The number of patches that do not apply shown in the initial message of
this thread shows that your expectation is wrong.
> Francesco P. Lovergine
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Adrian
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| Francesco Paolo Lovergine 2005-05-30, 7:53 am |
| On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:19:11PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> The number of patches that do not apply shown in the initial message of
> this thread shows that your expectation is wrong.
>
.... well, of course after pointing the issue for them :-)
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