Control: tags -1 confirmed On 13/12/2018 22:05, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:26:33 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > wrote: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: transition >> >> Dear release team, >> >> We would like to move the new DPDK LTS release 18.11-1 from >> experimental to unstable. This breaks the various libraries ABI > compat, >> so a transition is needed. >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpdk >> >> The new DPDK packages are all in experimental, having passed the NEW >> que >> ue, and have built on all supported architectures. >> >> Note that from this project follows a boost-like model, so >> the ABI revision is named after the upstream major version (eg: > librte- >> eal17.11 -> librte-eal18.11). This is done because most libraries > built >> from DPDK break ABI compat on every single major release. >> >> Reverse build dependency source packages: >> >> collectd: >> >> The reverse dependency builds needs a source update to build with > this >> new version, to do with autoconf. The fix has been merged upstream > [1] >> and backported to the stable branch currently in sid [2]. >> I have opened a bug and attached a patch, which I verified works [3]. >> It seems like there's another bug which should be fixed to allow >> migration, but the change is quite simple. I have prepared a source > NMU >> which I could upload if necessary. >> >> Note that although collectd only recommends the dpdk libraries, it > does >> so because the plugin is optional. The plugin still needs to be > rebuilt >> against the new libraries ABIs to work. >> >> virtio-forwarder: >> >> This package has never entered testing as of yet, due to another bug >> (which seems very simple to solve). The issue with DPDK is that > virtio- >> forwarder imports DPDK's makefiles rather than shipping its own, and >> these are deprecated. I reported this downstream [4] and upstream > [5]. >> Given it's not in testing I have not yet prepared a patch. I might do >> so in the next few days. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> Luca Boccassi >> >> [1] https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/3015 >> [2] https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/3017 >> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915419 >> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915417 >> [5] https://github.com/Netronome/virtio-forwarder/issues/3 > > I have a tentative fix for virtio-forwarder, sent upstream and debdiff > attached to the relevant bug.
Go ahead. Cheers, Emilio
