Bug#767022: Please reduce freeze time for cloop
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Please reduce the freeze time for the package cloop.
The rationale behind this is following:
* the binary packages are harmless, i.e. no suid binaries inside, no
systemd killing init scripts or other potential trouble makers
* the package was removed from Testing because of an "rc" bug which was
filed against the cloop-src binary package which didn't build with
some kernel 3.10.x version on the user system (this is not even a
FTBFS problem of the source package and the kernel version in
question is history now). After my update all kernels starting with
at least 3.12 should be supported.
* I updated the package following current standards, and I also changed
the type to native (i.e. git-tracked fork with minimal deviations)
because it was simply neccessary: just take a look at the upstream
source to get the feeling, it contained an own debian subdirectory
and "reused" debian/changelog as upstream changelog. The old stable
version even had a directory with cruft in upstreams debian/ folder.
So I chose to finally separate the changelogs and make some other
"editorial changes", and I will try to share the git repository with
the world as soon as somebody fixes
https://alioth.debian.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=30019
* this package itself has a long history and has a very low change
frequency. The upstream source changes are basically little
adaptions of the kernel module source to newer kernel versions. Apart
from the changes on Debian packaging, the few changes on the program
code were needed to solve the compiler warnings discovered with
hardening flags (which was easy since I personally wrote that
particular piece of source code back in my student times *g*).
So after all I think the package is in much better shape than it was
before.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Eduard.
$ debdiff cloop-utils_2.6.39.2-1_amd64.deb cloop-utils_3.14.1.1_amd64.deb
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]
Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/share/doc/cloop-utils/changelog.Debian.gz
Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
Depends: libc6 (>= [-2.3.2),-] {+2.14),+} libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= [-4.6),-] {+4.4.0),+} zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Installed-Size: [-219-] {+112+}
Version: [-2.6.39.2-1-] {+3.14.1.1+}
$ debdiff cloop-src_2.6.39.2-1_all.deb cloop-src_3.14.1.1_all.deb
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]
Files in second .deb but not in first
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/src/cloop.tar.xz
Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/share/doc/cloop-src/README.Debian
-rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/share/doc/cloop-src/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/src/cloop.tar.bz2
Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
Depends: module-assistant, debhelper (>= 5.0.37), [-bzip2-] {+xz-utils+}
Installed-Size: [-70-] {+68+}
Version: [-2.6.39.2-1-] {+3.14.1.1+}
$ diff a/cloop-2.639 b/cloop-3.14.1.1/ -Nurd | diffstat
CHANGELOG | 89
ChangeLog | 638 +++++
Makefile | 7
README | 12
VERSION | 1
advancecomp-1.15/config.guess | 1197 ++++------
advancecomp-1.15/config.sub | 469 ++-
advfs.cc | 75
cloop.c | 54
cloop.mod.c | 89
create_compressed_fs_fast.c | 240 --
debian/README.Debian | 26
debian/changelog | 85
debian/cloop-module-_KVERS_.config | 15
debian/cloop-module-_KVERS_.postinst.modules.in | 22
debian/cloop-module-_KVERS_.postrm | 36
debian/cloop-module-_KVERS_.templates | 5
debian/cloop-source.debhelper.log | 24
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/CHANGELOG | 89
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/Makefile | 70
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/README | 57
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/cloop.mod.c | 88
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/cloop_suspend.c | 49
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/compressed_loop.c | 1081 ---------
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/compressed_loop.h | 26
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/create_compressed_fs.c | 240 --
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/create_compressed_fs_fast.c | 240 --
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/debian/changelog | 625 -----
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/debian/control.in | 22
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/debian/copyright | 39
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/debian/rules | 319 --
debian/cloop-source/usr/src/modules/cloop/extract_compressed_fs.c | 216 -
debian/cloop-src.docs | 1
debian/cloop-utils.docs | 1
debian/cloop-utils.examples | 1
debian/cloop-utils.links | 2
debian/cloop-utils.manpages | 1
debian/compat | 2
debian/control | 24
debian/control.in | 22
debian/control.modules.in | 14
debian/copyright | 17
debian/create_compressed_fs.1 | 110
debian/create_compressed_fs.1.sgml | 156 +
debian/dirs | 1
debian/po/POTFILES.in | 1
debian/po/cs.po | 36
debian/po/da.po | 28
debian/po/de.po | 23
debian/po/es.po | 52
debian/po/fr.po | 38
debian/po/it.po | 30
debian/po/ja.po | 37
debian/po/ko.po | 29
debian/po/nl.po | 37
debian/po/pt.po | 29
debian/po/pt_BR.po | 37
debian/po/ru.po | 36
debian/po/sv.po | 35
debian/po/templates.pot | 29
debian/po/vi.po | 29
debian/postinst | 11
debian/postinst.modules.in | 11
debian/postrm | 16
debian/rules | 336 --
debian/rules.m-a | 32
debian/source/format | 1
extract_compressed_fs.c | 3
modules.order | 1
69 files changed, 2681 insertions(+), 4833 deletions(-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12.31+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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