Hi all,
Debian recently started added a linux-bpf-dev binary package that
installs the BPF header vmlinux.h at:
/usr/include/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/linux/bpf/vmlinux.h
After we did this Luca noted that in Ubuntu the corresponding binary
package installs it at:
/usr/include/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/linux/vmlinux.h
and as a result the systemd package needs to use distribution-
conditional logic to use this header.
We discussed this in a merge request
<https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1359>
(currently down, sorry) and also at a meeting on IRC
<https://meetbot.debian.net/debian-kernel/2025/debian-kernel.2025-04-02-19.00.log.html>.
The main argument for using <linux/bpf/vmlinux.h> is that it is less
likely to conflict with or be confused with a posible future UAPI header
installed at /usr/include/linux/vmlinux.h.
Would you consider moving this header in Ubuntu to align with Debian?
Or alternatively would you like to argue for the converse (Debian should
align with Ubuntu)?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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- Carolyn Scheppner
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