On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 00:17, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 23:27, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 19:00:59 +0100 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 20:04 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > And so, it will be great if kernel team will like to package and > > > > maintain it, if not, then I will be happy to do it. Please > > > > reject this bug report if you think bpftool should not be done > > > > separately and should live inside kernel source package. > > > > > > Since you are already maintaining libbpf I would be happy to hand > > over > > > bpftool to you. I will try to discuss this at this evening's team > > > meeting. > > > > What about moving libbpf and bpftool to the kernel team area under > > Salsa? That way more people can help, and it can use salsa-ci too > > bpftool is already with the kernel team and being built from kernel > source. And I anticipated that bpftool will move to github like > upstream libbpf did and also mentioned that at > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948041#83. So, its > upto the kernel team what they want to do with bpftool - > 1. continue to build from kernel source and we can just close this bug > 2. Split bpftool from kernel source and package it from github. The > kernel team can maintain if they want to maintain an userspace > package. If the kernel team does not want to maintain it, I can do > that. > > About libbpf, I am confused with your message. What kind of help? Are > you seeing that libbpf is not maintained properly?
I'm not talking about the upstream source, but about the debian repository: given both of these are inextricably tied to the kernel, I think it would be good to have the downstream repositories in salsa, in the kernel-team area - and of course, still including yourself as repo owner. The kernel team is not only for the kernel package, but also other kernel-adjacent packages like ethtool, iproute2, firmware, iw, etc: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team
