Hi everyone! Friday marked the last day of Debcamp, which is taking place in the beautiful city Cape Town. Besides the mandatory sight seeing, we also managed to do some actual work :-)
jessie backport =============== mikap (Michael Prokop) approached me about providing a backport for jessie. He remembers having issues with the jessie version (services getting confused if journald is restarted) which is fixed in newer versions of systemd, so would like to have something newer via jessie-backports. After investigating the situation of the package in stretch/sid, which has some dependencies which aren't available in jessie, we concluded that it's probably best to not attempt to backport util-linux, but instead revert the upstream commits related to libmount. The other main issue is ifupdown, because net.agent (allow-hotplug) moved from udev to ifupdown. A backport of ifupdown seems simple, so we will probably go that route. We poked andrewsh who wasn't aversed to the idea but we should probably also talk to Guus Slippen about that. Mika has been working on that and I afaik he has some packages already which mostly work. jessie stable update ==================== The next stable point release 8.6 will probably be in August. I've been reviewing the existing bug reports which requested certain fixes for stable [1] and either committed them to the jessie branch or asked for more information. I haven't asked the stable release team yet regarding an upload. I will probably wait another week or two, in case new bugs are filed (during Debconf). removal of legacy stuff ======================= zeha (Christian Hofstaedtler) has been busy preparing updates for packages affected by the innserv removal [2] and the initscripts dependency [3] and uploaded them to DELAYED/10. The main blocker regarding the initscripts dependency remains procps, so we should probably poke Craig Small again in the near future. Progress was also made on the rcS front [4] with nbd being uploaded by wouter. The remaining blocker is mdadm. Hopefully we can get a hold of xnox during Debconf and have this sorted out. systemd diet ============ Although not happening at Debcamp, I still want to mention it as it happened during Debcamp. Felipe did some nice work on turning systemd's libshared and libbasic into a private shared library [5]. Those bits landed upstream a couple of days ago and Martin was eager to cherry-pick that. The latest update of systemd in stretch 230-5 dropped a whopping 9MB and is now half the size before compared to 230-4. Thanks everyone! It's nice seeing progress on various fronts. From the other side of the world, Michael [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=jessie-backport [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=insserv-removal [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=initscripts-dep [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=init-rcs-service [5] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3516 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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