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Bug#699624: unblock: blcr/0.8.5-1



On 5 March 2013 20:56, intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan Woodland wrote (02 Feb 2013 13:23:22 GMT) :
>> 0.8.5-1 is the official upstream release that adds support for more recent kernels
>> and fixes a number of other bugs which were discovered. This version fixes #638339 in
>> the preferred way. #638339 was originally closed with a less than ideal interim
>> workaround which disabled the kernel module. It was subsequently reopened. 0.8.5-1 is
>> a proper, upstream supported complete fix which has seen extensive testing in
>> experimental and more widely in the community that use it
>
>> unblock blcr/0.8.5-1
>
> Usually, a debdiff would ease the review process, but in this case:
>
>  94 files changed, 106648 insertions(+), 143118 deletions(-)
>
> ... I'm not sure. Most of the changes are in ./configure and in
> debian/patches/99_rerun_autoconf, so if those changes are not relevant
> for some reason, to this unblock request, then please explain why, and
> please provide a filtered diff. Thanks in advance!
>

Attached is a filtered diff. It's made against 0.8.2-15 (stable)
instead of testing since the version in testing dropped kernel space
support (required to do anything useful) as a short term workaround
whilst this patch was being prepared.

Most of the patches that Debian was running in 0.8.2-X are now merged
in upstream. Primarily the changes in this diff are adding support for
newer kernels. There are some test suite updates and userspace library
fixes, but no ABI breaking changes. I've also addressed a few Debian
specific issues.

The new kernel support has been extensively tested outside of
Debian[1] and the process also uncovered and fixed a number of
existing bugs[2].

I'm confident that this is the right version to release with.

Alan

[1] https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/pipermail/checkpoint/2012-December/000538.html
[2] https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/pipermail/checkpoint/2013-January/000590.html

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