Bug#699624: unblock: blcr/0.8.5-1
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On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 12:30 +0000, Alan Woodland wrote:
> 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.
A couple of comments, having read back through the earlier discussion
regarding the proposal to remove the package.
In <CAD2JkJeRD5fZHdiL1tmc4OqTM=gdGt=NN+u6OqffuTpUramu9g@mail.gmail.com>,
you indicated that "[t]he library behaves sanely without the kernel
module". If that's the case then I'm a little dubious about the merits
of re-adding the module package at this late stage of the freeze.
One of our kernel maintainers indicated in that earlier discussion that
he doesn't believe the c/r functionality should be in an out-of-tree
module. Ben, I assume that's still the case?
Regards,
Adam
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