Bug#794962: wheezy-pu: package openafs/1.6.1-3+deb7u3
Control: tags -1 + pending
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 18:55 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Control: tag -1 confirmed
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> (2015-08-08):
> > The security update to the linux kernel (3.2.65-1+deb7u2) changed the
> > KPI by moving d_alias into the d_u union, which causes subsequent
> > (re)build attempts of the openafs kernel module to fail. (Existing
> > openafs kernel modules continued to work due to clever work by the
> > kernel maintainer.) This situation was maintained without great
> > incident until the upload of openafs 1.6.1-3+deb7u3 to the security
> > repo, which cause most people to attempt to build a new openafs kernel
> > module and fail. Two grave bugs (780865 and 794224) reflect that
> > situation.
>
> It would be slightly better to have those filed against the proper
> binary package or the source package. They're currently recorded in
> the BTS against (binary) openafs which doesn't exist.
>
> (For the record I've spotted this because the first thing I look for is
> the bug graph, to see what the status of the bug report is for all
> suites, as we usually like unstable/testing to have fixed versions in
> the first place, or as not affected.)
>
> > We had to deal with this problem for jessie back in February, but I
> > didn't have enough time to fix it for wheezy then. The jessie
> > updates also included a fix for a bug causing potential data
> > corruption in mmapped files; I included the fix for that (778851) in
> > this w-p-u as well.
>
> All of this seems rather reasonable. The first bullet point of the
> changelog entry seems like it has suffered from an unedited copy/paste
> after the bug closures though? Quoting it:
>
> > diff -Nru openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog
> > --- openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog 2015-07-30 06:27:51.000000000 -0400
> > +++ openafs-1.6.1/debian/changelog 2015-08-08 14:23:47.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
> > +openafs (1.6.1-3+deb7u4) wheezy-proposed-updates; urgency=medium
> > +
> > + * Fix the kernel module build when d_alias is in the d_u union
> > + (Closes: #780865, Closes: #794224)
> > + to d_alias being a member of the d_u union.
>
> Feel free to upload your package, with or without a possible edition of
> this entry.
Uploaded and flagged for acceptance.
Regards,
Adam
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