Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 at 21:09, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2024-06-01 at 21:13 +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 14:24, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 14:00 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 00:17, Sudip Mukherjee
> > > > <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 23:27, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 19:00:59 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 20:04 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > > > > And so, it will be great if kernel team will like to package and
> > > > > > > > maintain it, if not, then I will be happy to do it. Please
> > > > > > > > reject this bug report if you think bpftool should not be done
> > > > > > > > separately and should live inside kernel source package.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Since you are already maintaining libbpf I would be happy to hand
> > > > > > over
> > > > > > > bpftool to you.  I will try to discuss this at this evening's team
> > > > > > > meeting.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately we didn't have time for it this time.
> >
> > No problem. And even if bpftool is built as a new package, I think
> > Luca will like to keep bpftool with kernel team. Whoever maintains it,
> > as long as a release version is packaged and not a development
> > version, all is good.  So, I will leave it with you and the kernel
> > team.
> > Please ping me if you need me to do anything.
> [...]
>
> At today's meeting we agreed that bpftool should be split out, but
> should remain under the kernel team with you as an uploader.

Sorry Ben, but it look like there are objections.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057290#40
I think all your team members will be happy if someone from your team
is the uploader.
Lets discuss during the Minidebconf if you think otherwise.


-- 
Regards
Sudip