Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel

[Bastian Blank <bblank@thinkmo.de>]

Hi Marco

On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 06:59:36PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 03, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do we package libbpf from their github repo independent of the kernel
> > update? Then we will need to remove the libbpf building bits from the
> > Debian kernel source and create a separate package for libbpf.
> This is what some of the upstream libbpf developers requested us to do.

What I don't understand is, if the kernel git tree is the primary
location for this library, why should we use an external copy?

What are the benefits of doing so?

Bastian

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