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Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.5)



On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:36 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 05:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I think we're going to need to do another kernel upload before the point
> > release to revert a fix that is worse than the original bug:
> > 
> > > Subject: Revert "autofs: work around unhappy compat problem on x86-64"
> > > 
> > > This reverts commit 82e43e2a64739caf323ac98641e1250c3808c300
> > > (commit a32744d4abae24572eff7269bc17895c41bd0085 upstream).
> > > 
> > > The original bug (#633423) is 6 years old and autofs has a workaround
> > > for it which is broken by this fix.  systemd doesn't have the
> > > workaround, but it also isn't in squeeze.
> 
> That bug's marked as found in 2.6.32-44, which I assume is the
> not-yet-released version you were planning on including in the point
> release?

Yes.

> Is the new version ready for upload?  It's looking like the point
> release will be the 12/13th, so it would be good to have everything
> ready in p-u by next weekend.

I think it's ready, though there may be some security fixes we should
throw in as well.  Dann?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus

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