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Bug#954661: transition: dpdk



On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 13:32 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> 
> On 22/03/2020 13:31, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> > X-Debbugs-CC: zigo@debian.org 
> > pkg-dpdk-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
> > 
> > Dear Release Team,
> > 
> > The new DPDK 19.11 LTS is ready for unstable/testing, and we wish
> > to
> > begin the transition. It was already uploaded to experimental:
> > 
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpdk
> > 
> > The reverse dependencies are collectd and openvswitch:
> > 
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/collectd
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openvswitch
> > 
> > Collectd rebuilds without any changes. Openvswitch needs a new
> > version,
> > 2.13, which Thomas already uploaded to experimental and that is
> > ready
> > for unstable.
> > 
> > There's no auto-transition tracker for some reason, if I understand
> > the
> > obscure syntax it should be something like:
> > 
> > Affected: .build-depends ~ /libdpdk-dev/
> > Good: .depends ~ /librte-eal20.0/
> > Bad: .depends ~ /librte-eal18.11/
> 
> There's no automatic tracker because librte-eal18.11 has no reverse
> dependencies. collectd only recommends it (via shlibs:Recommends, so
> we can
> binNMU it) and I don't see openvswitch having any kind of dependency
> on
> librte-eal18.11. Am I missing something?
> 
> In any case you can go ahead already.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emilio

Uploaded to sid. Thomas, please go ahead and upload the new version of
OVS once the builds are done.

OVS doesn't link directly to the libraries, but dlopen() them (or
something along those lines). It depends on the generic dpdk binary
package which pulls in everything that is needed for that.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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