On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 15:10 +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Hello Ben.
>
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 08:22:09PM +0200, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > Would you consider reverting this change for the sake of compatibility?
>
> As you write, it's not fatally broken and it may be "just" an issue of
> container images that got no fresh rebuild. (And I think it should be
> generally discouraged running containers with stale deps in them.)
>
> The original patch would mainly serve legacy userspace (host) setups on
> top of contemporary kernel (besides API purity reasons). Admittedly,
> these should be rare and eventually extinct in contrast with your
> example where it's a containerized userspace (which typically could do
> no cgroup setup) that may still have some user demand.
>
> So, I'd be more confident with the revert if such an adjustment was
> carried downstream by some distro and proven its viability first. Do you
> know of any in the wild?
The revert has just gone into Debian unstable, targetting the upcoming
stable release. So at this point I can't confidently state that it
won't also cause regressions.
Ben.
>
> I appreciate your report,
> Michal
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Ben Hutchings
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