For now, this API breakage and zero-copy read is contained in the special libnfs-next-gen branch.
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 22:23, ronnie sahlberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > As the developer of libnfs I am asking for advice here. > In order to implement "zero-copy" read support I had to break he API for > read(), > which realistically breaks the API for every single application. So I > took the opportunity to fix other > warts in the interface as well (like rpc_* functions should return a > handle that could be cancelled) > > This is a 100% API breaking change. So advice please on going forward. > What does debian packaging and maintainer folks think? > I am personally leaning towards leaving the current libnfs and API in > a frozen maintenance state and > publish the massive API changes in a libnfsv2 project? > > What should I do and how should I do it? The API changes are useful > for going forward > but they will break all backward compatibility. > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 22:15, Thomas Uhle > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Source: libnfs > > Version: 4.0.0-1 > > Severity: important > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > > Dear maintainers, > > > > libnfs has not seen any updates in Debian since almost four years. > > Currently, there is version 5.0.2 upstream [1]. So can you please > > update libnfs for Debian and also debian/watch to track the releases > > at https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs/releases/tags . > > > > Thank you in advance! > > > > Best regards, > > > > Thomas Uhle > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs/releases/tag/libnfs-5.0.2 > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 12.0 > > APT prefers stable-updates > > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, > > 'stable') > > Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) > > Foreign Architectures: armhf > > > > Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > > > Versions of packages libnfs13 depends on: > > ii libc6 2.36-9 > > > > libnfs13 recommends no packages. > > > > libnfs13 suggests no packages. > > > > -- no debconf information > >
