Hi, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> (2017-03-28): > since 232-19, a couple of fixes accumulated which we'd like to see enter > testing/stretch > > As this potentially affects the installer, I've CC debian-boot aka KiBi. > > A complete debdiff is attached. > > The changelog + annotations follows. Sorry if it's a bit verbose.
FWIW: I'm very happy with the amount of details, many thanks! > > [ Michael Biebl ] > > * Add Conflicts against hal. > > Since v183, udev no longer supports RUN+="socket:". This feature is > > still used by hal, but now generates vast amounts of errors in the > > journal. Thus force the removal of hal by adding a Conflicts to the udev > > package. This is safe, as hal is long dead and no package depends on it > > anymore. > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=stretch&id=29757891624a73702b1de4b4d5ebd70d721357db > > (not relevant for the installer) > > This is a potentially odd one. hal has been removed in jessie, but > apparently some users still have it installed after upgrading from > previous releases. This now leads to massive amounts of error messages > in the journal (basically on every uevent). So forcing the removal of > hal seems justified. > There is a slight catch: the Conflicts could potentially lead to udev > not being upgraded or udev removed in favour of keeping hal. > But: since no other package depends on hal anymore and lots of packages > depend on udev this scenario is rather unlikely. I did several upgrade > tests and was not able to trigger such a condition. In all cases, hal > was removed as intended. Oh, wow, hal is still alive on some systems?! Crazy. :-) > > * rules: Allow SPARC vdisk devices when identifying CD drives > > (Closes: #858014) > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=stretch&id=99e1327b3883fcc5632af7aad4c19ce93e2a55b1 > > (might be relevant for the installer) > > Requested by a porter, didn't see a good reason not to include it. > Low-risk change. I think that's fine, yeah. From a quick look, a few places might need an update in d-i components (since we've got some hardcoded lists of patterns at the moment…), but I suppose having the udev change is a prerequisite anyway. > > * udev: Fix /dev/disk/by-path aliases for virtio disks. (Closes: #856558) > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=stretch&id=8ecdc5ca14cf9390104f434c77d76355485d49d4 > > (might be relevant for the installer) > > Quoting Martin: "this is reasonably straightforward and also important to > get fixed in Stretch" I'm not seeing anything directly using those in d-i components. > > * udev: Create persistent net names for virtio CCW devices. > > This only affects s390x as only this has CCW devices. This provides > > stable network interface names for those and avoids changing the names > > on updating Stretch to Buster. (Closes: #856559) > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=stretch&id=bb9ad652f309a90a5424381503083ee9a530a888 > > (might be relevant for the installer) > > This only affects s390x, so regression potential is low and it's > important to get into stretch, otherwise we'd have migration issues in > buster (as names would change, which would be ugly) Adding debian-s...@lists.debian.org to the loop to make sure they're aware of this. Can't really judge whether this could be annoying in d-i, it seems to me that's just fixing a move which hadn't happened with the net.ifnames transition, for specific hardware? > Regards, > Michael > on behalf of the pkg-systemd team. Again, many thanks for the details, that's really appreciated. → ACK for the whole lot. KiBi.
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