Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Bug #778196 was filed against openafs-modules-dkms to note that the latest kernel to hit jessie (which was the unblock request in #776899) causes the DKMS module to fail to build. The new kernel introduced a KPI change for accesses to the d_alias field of struct dentry, which must now be made through the d_u union.
I updated openafs in sid to include upstream's patches for new linux support (including the d_u change) when the new kernel hit sid, but that update also included a new translation and several bugfixes of various severity. Additionally, openafs in sid has a newer upstream version than openafs in jessie, due to excessive optimism on my part in the lead up to freeze. (It is also the case that nearly every upstream update for openafs includes support for new linux versions, since the KPI is a moving target, so I am used to having to pull in new upstream versions regularly.) The version in jessie also does not have native systemd support, and it remains unclear whether the systemd sysv compat is causing problems for jessie users that native unit files could resolve (#760063) -- for at least some users, the issue seems to have mysteriously gone away but there is no openafs or systemd change which obviously should have resolved things. The question is, how should we resolve the situation for jessie? It seems like the most likely answer is a minimal patch uploaded to testing-proposed-updates, but I wanted to ask the release team whether there were other options, such as unblocking the openafs currently in sid (even though it is a new upstream version). It is probably worth noting that openafs is a leaf package. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150212195553.16087.34388.report...@glossolalia.mit.edu
