Re: Bug#1106070: Raising the severity?
On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 08:32:20PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
>
> Hi Roland, hi Cyril,
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 05:44:42PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 25/05/2025 17:00, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > To be honest, I almost asked what the plans were for 6.12.29-1 regarding
> > > this issue, and whether Severity: important was appropriate. But I got
> > > busy with other things and let this fly…
> > >
> > > Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> (2025-05-25):
> > > > I see your point and having though the ITS mitigations in my opinion
> > > > is more important. But stepping a bit back I fully understand as well
> > > > your point of view.
> > > >
> > > > Cyril and Debian boot people, would you actually want to not get
> > > > 6.12.29-1 into trixie?
> > >
> > > Regarding the installer itself, I'm fine with either having .29 then .30
> > > or just waiting for .30. I definitely can see how live people might want
> > > to avoid a known broken kernel's reaching testing though.
> > >
> > > > FWIW, the next upload *will* include a fix for the loop issue. I have
> > > > already imported 6.12.30 for the packaging and marked the loop fix as
> > > > to be backported to 6.12.
> >
> > If 6.12.30 is nearly ready to be uploaded, I would propose to skip 6.12.29
> > and have 6.12.30 in (perhaps even faster than with a 10 day delay)
> >
> > If we were to have 6.12.29, the live images based on trixie will be
> > untestable and we would fly blind regarding trixie until 6.12.30 lands
> > there. We are currently unable to test the live images based on sid, which
> > is already a bit uncomfortable to me, I have even considered writing a hack
> > to use the trixie kernel instead.
> >
> > So 6.12.27 in trixie and 6.12.30 in sid seems the better option to me.
>
> While I think the ITS mitigations would be important, I do not want to
> have your life harder working on the life images. Let's raise the
> severity of this bug to RC and it will be fixed with the next upload
> to unstable.
With my Grml hat on, I would also like to avoid having broken images
until 6.12.30 shows up in trixie.
Thanks,
Chris
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