Thank Utkarsh. Yeah, we just dropped the ball on not getting this done sooner. I'd like to see if we can make the case for SRU'ing 6.8 in, so let's convert the bug to that.
I don't think we can justify dropping FAN support in an SRU, so let's add that port back in. We'll need to make a convincing case to the SRU team that the risk of regression is minimal. Our partners at NVIDIA/Mellanox have offered to put this release through their testing. I'll see if they can provide details on what their tests will cover. @matttbe - is there any documentation about upstream compatibility guarantees and regression testing done that you're aware of, or any tests that we could run beyond those in our autopkgtests? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to iproute2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051672 Title: [FFe] Merge iproute2 with the latest Debian version: 6.8.0-1 from testing/unstable (main) Status in iproute2 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: iproute2 upstream produces releases coinciding with upstream kernel releases to support the latest kernel features. Noble's iproute2 is still back at v6.1 even though it will use the v6.8 kernel. This means we provide no userspace interface for newer features - some of which are noted by a networking hardware partner in bug 2060969. Ubuntu's iproute2 has diverged from Debian's to add support for Ubuntu FAN. Noble has dropped kernel support for Ubuntu FAN, so those are no longer needed, and we could now just do a merge. We could also port the FAN patches forward if we can identify a need (see the original description of this bug to a link to such a port), but I have not done any testing with that. I have built Debian's iproute2 in a noble ppa at ppa:dannf/test and smoke tested it on an amd64 virtual machine: ubuntu@cortez-vm-0:~$ sudo dpkg -i iproute2_6.8.0-1~24.04.1_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 83134 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack iproute2_6.8.0-1~24.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking iproute2 (6.8.0-1~24.04.1) over (6.1.0-1ubuntu6) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/iproute2/rt_tables.d': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/iproute2/rt_protos.d': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/iproute2': Directory not empty Setting up iproute2 (6.8.0-1~24.04.1) ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/group ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_realms ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_scopes ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_tables ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.d/README ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_protos.d/README ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_protos ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/rt_dsfield ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/nl_protos ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/ematch_map ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/iproute2/bpf_pinning ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build1) ... The system rebooted fine. The ip command seems to behave normally. Since the upstream test suite only appears to run at autopkgtest time, I triggered a run in my PPA, and it passed: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble-dannf-test/noble/amd64/i/iproute2/20240412_210819_97417@/log.gz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iproute2/+bug/2051672/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
