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Re: -bsd@ stuff to do during DebConf?



Hi Christoph,

I'm hoping we could have a transition ticket filed for kfreebsd 10.1 in
time for the release team talk at DebConf today (and Cc'd to -boot@).
What else do you think we need for this?

I plan to mention:

* packaging of 10.1 snapshots began some 3 weeks ago, it is in
experimental and got through the NEW queue already

* upstream release timeline - currently proceeding on schedule. they're
in 'code slush' already and are due to freeze on 5th September

* upstream security schedule - by the time of Jessie release, 10.1 will
be supported (for a long term), but not 10.0

* we're already using some features that were new/unimplemented in 10.0,
such as newcons that Robert backported an early version of, and KMS
which should have matured some more in 10.1

* clang-3.3 is being dropped from jessie/sid in favour of clang-3.4 or
3.5:  upstream already builds 10.1 with clang-3.4, whereas 10.0 would
need some bits backported by us (not too difficult though)

* it's working fine with d-i:  I've been using 10.1 kernels exclusively
while working on the bugs reported in d-i beta 1

The actual 'transition' part will be kfreebsd-kernel-headers from 10.0
to 10.1 (so, hopefully smaller than the 9.2->10.0 transition that
happened earlier this year);  reverse depends are mostly freebsd-libs,
but also libc0.1-dev, and from there it could affect a lot of things, I
don't suppose we're expected to rebuild the whole archive?  We could do
test rebuilds of selected stuff though if advisable;  I could easily
borrow/rent some hardware to do that if needed.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org

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