Hi,
I have made three uploads of packages that are currently
frozen, and here are the usual excuses.
a) libselinux: The python-selinux package was mostly empty when run
on buildd's since sometimes a timing problem when creating the
source from .dsc makes make think that the swig output files are
older than swig input files. Corrected by adding swig to build
depends; no other code changes; and the swig output is only used
by the optional package selinux-python.
Please allow into testing; I think the risk is minimal, and this is
a serious error (running a SELinux box is much harder without the
helper python scripts).
b) coreutils NMU: There were three assignments statements that I had
failed to guard with an #ifdef WITH_SELINUX .. #endif. These are
struct members which only exist when compiling with
--with-selinux; and cause a FTBS failure on kfreebsd and the
HURD. This is the only change.
Please allow into testing; this is a cleaner patch, and should make
no difference for Linux arches.
c) kernel-package: With recent versions of upstream kernels, Kbuild
helpfully, and interactively, tries to fix kernel .configs if it
deems them broken. Tis could happen if you have an old .config,
or you have a .config that contains questions inserted by patches
not yet installed in the kernel source tree.
The second factor is that a kernel version determination is getting
more and more complex; all kinds of config options and files in the
top dir may affect version numbers. Add to this the kernel-package
feature that you may append arbitrary text to the EXTRAVERSION
part, you have issues: it is hard to get the kernel version broken
up ito component parts without using the Kbuild
infrastructure. kernel-package accomplishes this by wrapping the
top level Makefile in an outer Makefile that adds targets, and
calling this outer Makefile to echo the version comopnents.
At this point, Kbuild helpfully tries to interactively configure
the .config -- and aborts if it realizes that the call is being
done in batch mode (no tty) 00 dumping garbage into STDOUT.
So, when running make-kpkg --patches foo,bar ...; if your .config
has stuff needed for the patches, the variable we were trying to
set would have garbage, without the current patch.
I am not yet asking for kernel-package to be included in
testing, since I would like some field testing of my patches first.
The first two packages are being uploaded with urgency hig;
kernel-package is with urgency low.
manoj
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