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Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June



Hi Vagrant, Karsten,

Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2016-06-25):
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> (2016-06-25):
> > On 2016-06-25, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2016-06-25):
> > >> on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot
> > >> 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs under certain
> > >> conditions on a number of sunxi platforms.  These issues are fixed in
> > >> u-boot v2016.05 (latest official release), but v2016.05 has brought
> > >> new regressions on the am57xx_evm and firefly-rk3288 platforms, so it
> > >> cannot go into the archive as is.  For details, please refer to
> > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825214.
> > >
> > > Thanks for bringing this up.
> > >
> > >> I would be good to have the u-boot issues fixed before we publish the
> > >> next d-i release.  A possible option would be to backport commit
> > >> affa020559bca31d6531e19cb1f009c22705a73d from u-boot 2016.05 to
> > >> u-boot 2016.03 and to urgent the result into testing before doing the
> > >> d-i release (CCing Vagrant Cascadian, the u-boot maintainer).
> > >> 
> > >> Kibi, Vagrant: what's your opinion on the topic?
> > >
> > > If the fixes are identified and can be applied on top of the current
> > > packages in unstable, pushing them (upload & urgent) looks like a good
> > > plan to me. :)
> > 
> > I can prepare and upload of 2016.03 with patches, but I'm not able to do
> > as much testing as usual, as i wouldn't be able to recover if the board
> > tests fail (due to debconf)... but if the patches are limited in scope,
> > it should be fairly safe to upload.
> 
> I understand; AFAICT from Karsten's mail, the scope is indeed very
> limited if affa020559bca31d6531e19cb1f009c22705a73d is to be
> cherry-picked alone, so we should be on a rather safe side here?

FWIW I'm going to upload debian-installer very shortly; it'd be nice if
u-boot could be uploaded while src:debian-installer is getting built,
urgented, and dak copy-installer'd into testing; so that it has a chance
to reach testing before we start building images.


KiBi.

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