On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 05:01 -1000, Steve Sakoman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:19 PM Mittal, Anuj <anuj.mit...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 04:50 -1000, Steve Sakoman wrote: > > > Issues with undetected file mode corruption in pseudo have been > > > identified. > > > > > > Fixes have been merged into master and gatesgarth over the past > > > several months and > > > things seem to have stabilized enough that we can consider > > > backporting these fixes > > > to dunfell. > > > > > > This is a somewhat more invasive change than normal. Specifically the > > > user will > > > be required to clean TMPDIR after this merge. It may also expose > > > issues with > > > other layers, though master and gategarth have probably helped to > > > pave the way for > > > this change. > > > > > > Personally I think that this fixes a serious enough issue that we > > > should consider > > > this series for dunfell. > > > > I think it might be better to wait for some more time before they are > > merged in LTS so they get wider testing by people who might be using > > gatesgarth. The wic patches have not been merged in gatesgarth yet (I > > just sent the pull request). > > How long would you suggest that we wait? > > I felt that this was a good time since we've just released 3.1.5 and > it would give layer maintainers a good chunk of time to react before > we release 3.1.6 > > I'm open to suggestions, but if we don't do it now I feel we ought to > wait till just after 3.1.6 then.
It is a tricky balance but FWIW I'm leaning towards having these as one of the 3.1.6 changes. Cheers, Richard
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