On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:26:33 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > Dear release team, > > We would like to move the new DPDK LTS release 18.11-1 from > experimental to unstable. This breaks the various libraries ABI compat, > so a transition is needed. > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpdk > > The new DPDK packages are all in experimental, having passed the NEW > que > ue, and have built on all supported architectures. > > Note that from this project follows a boost-like model, so > the ABI revision is named after the upstream major version (eg: librte- > eal17.11 -> librte-eal18.11). This is done because most libraries built > from DPDK break ABI compat on every single major release. > > Reverse build dependency source packages: > > collectd: > > The reverse dependency builds needs a source update to build with this > new version, to do with autoconf. The fix has been merged upstream [1] > and backported to the stable branch currently in sid [2]. > I have opened a bug and attached a patch, which I verified works [3]. > It seems like there's another bug which should be fixed to allow > migration, but the change is quite simple. I have prepared a source NMU > which I could upload if necessary. > > Note that although collectd only recommends the dpdk libraries, it does > so because the plugin is optional. The plugin still needs to be rebuilt > against the new libraries ABIs to work. > > virtio-forwarder: > > This package has never entered testing as of yet, due to another bug > (which seems very simple to solve). The issue with DPDK is that virtio- > forwarder imports DPDK's makefiles rather than shipping its own, and > these are deprecated. I reported this downstream [4] and upstream [5]. > Given it's not in testing I have not yet prepared a patch. I might do > so in the next few days. > > Thanks! > > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi > > [1] https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/3015 > [2] https://github.com/collectd/collectd/pull/3017 > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915419 > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915417 > [5] https://github.com/Netronome/virtio-forwarder/issues/3 I have a tentative fix for virtio-forwarder, sent upstream and debdiff attached to the relevant bug. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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