Bug#916351: transition: dpdk
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 13/12/2018 22:05, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> 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.
Go ahead.
Cheers,
Emilio
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