On 21/10/2016 16:36, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 12:40 +0300, Konstantin Demin wrote:
I disagree: you fix debian code but upstream kernel is also affected.
I wanted to compile the upstream 4.4.26 for the COW fixe and cannot.
Please revert.
It is absolutely supported (so long as you enable the necessary
features) and is common practice. However, any bugs in some other
version of the kernel should not be assigned to src:linux.
Thanks Ben. BTW : I was originally arguing against the move to linux:src
for a bug I opened on gcc because I was compiling upstream vanilla
kernel code. (I never open a bug in linux:src as I barely use it except
at first install).
I also dislike, gcc advocates forcibly merging bugs people have
discovered rebuilding debian kernel from source and bug discovered
compiling upstream vanilla kernel from source not even flagging them
"upstream".
Nice game : they broke gcc with their patches (even if for possible good
technical security reasons), and then, when bug are detected, even if
bug report (like mine) explicitly specified upstream vanilla kernel code
they reaffect it to linux:src asking for someone else to clean up the mess.
I do think (like you wrote elsewhere) that fixing debian kernel build is
not a solution: until the needed patches are applied upstream, tagged
for stable and have been propagated to the various LTS kernel,theses
patches needs to be reverted.
-- eric
