On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 07:40 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:56:42 +0100 Christian Ehrhardt
>> > <christian.ehrhar
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > > the patch seems to do more than just 4.14 which is good but needs
>> >
>> > some
>> > > discussion.
>> > > I'll try to do some tests based upon it later on, but for now I
>> >
>> > wanted
>> > > to say that dropping the iproute transitionals requires fixing
>> > > the
>> > > following old dependencies first.
>> > >
>> > > ipkungfu :Depends: iptables (>= 1.2.7), iproute, kmod, libc6 (>=
>> >
>> > 2.2.5)
>> > > apf-firewall :Depends: iptables, lsb-base, wget, iproute
>> > > arno-iptables-firewall :Depends: iptables, gawk, debconf |
>> > > cdebconf,
>> > > debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, iproute
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Christian Ehrhardt
>> > > Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
>> > > Canonical Ltd
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > (Small world :-P )
>> >
>> > FYI as agreed with Alexander, the iproute2 maintainer, I've
>> > volunteered
>> > to help. [1]
>>
>> Indeed, hi Luca :-)
>>
>> On the Ubuntu Side I couldn't wait so I already did some work and you
>> can take a look what of that you want to pick up.
>> This [1] includes suggested changes in this and other Debian bugs, as
>> well as myself adding a autopkgtest case.
>> In fact the latter already has a follow on fix in queue to make it
>> work on non x86 [2].
>>
>> I hope that will help you when you get to 4.14.x
>>
>> cu
>> Christian
>
> Hi,
>
> 4.14 is now in testing and unstable, I've started doing a couple of
> packaging fixes.

Thanks Luca!

> I've imported the autopkgtest and patch for urandom (thanks!). Any
> chance you could send that patch upstream?

This change is by me and of course I should send it upstream, I punted
it on the pre-Christmas sprint :-)
Thanks for reminding, see [1]

> Also what's the story with those VXLAN Ubuntu patches? Are they going
> to be sent upstream?

Those are required to [2] only which AFAIK for now is Ubuntu only and
therefore not upstreamed.
Keep in mind that - just as you - I'm a drive-by-helper on this
package, so I might lack some past context :-)

[1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=151487814431958&w=2
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FanNetworking

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

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