Hi Florian On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:24:01AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Ola, > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:00:34PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > > > http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=commitdiff;h=8d63c21bf22965510548ae2c5dbcb02fd0bbf874 > > > [...] > > > This patch is included in upstream 3.0.24 as currently present in > > > Squeeze/Sid. > > > > > > Do you see any chance of including this in Lenny as well, e.g. via > > > proposed-updates and a point release? Full IPv6 support was, after all, a > > > release goal for Lenny ... > > > > Unfortunatly not. Squeeze has just hit frozen state, which means that > > it will likely become released as stable release before next point > > release of lenny. > > Hmm, I don't follow. The Squeeze release process doesn't prevent point > releases for Lenny from taking place as long as Lenny will be supported.
No but so far I have been around very few point releases has been published from the point when the next is frozen. I may be mistaken though. > > In any case this kind of fixes are very likely > > to be rejected by the release managers. I'm quite certain that it will > > be. > > That patch from above improves IPv6 support in Lenny, and full IPv6 > support was a release goal for Lenny. > That patch is included upstream and tested in Squeeze/Sid. > > Just repeating that from my original mail to reinforce my sentiment that > I'd personally think this patch might get accepted for Lenny. > > Some further data points (which don't indicate any general policy, though): > - amarok was updated in Lenny after it didn't properly wikipedia > contents in the context browser anymore > http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/amarok/news/20091216T233214Z.html This one is correction of something that worked. > - totem was updated in Lenny after its youtube plugin stopped working > http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/totem/news/20091205T215117Z.html Same here. > - heartbeat was updated in Lenny, including a fix for IPv6addr handling > of /64 prefixes > http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/heartbeat/news/20090808T195740Z.html Interesting. > - subversion was updated in Lenny fixing a bug in a commit hook script > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/subversion/news/20090705T135434Z.html > From these I gather that such seemingly small fixes might get included > in a point release. Thus, please reconsider. It is not up to me to decide. I can not include anything in squeeze. I can only suggest to the release team. From what I read on http://release.debian.org/ chapter "Suite update policy" and then under stable I read: "Fast response for security updates. Minor updates include security and other important fixes only. ..." The only solution I see is that this fix can be considered as "important" from a release point of view. The question is then? Do IPv6 support work fully after this? From what I remember there were quite a few other corrections to the IPv6 support both in 3.0.23 and 3.0.24. I do not say that I refuse, what I say is that I think this update is hard to get through, and I need a really strong case to succeed. It needs to be a really important correction, with no side-effects, well tested and a solution to a problem that is evidently a problem. I know that IPv6 support do not work well in squeeze for vzctl but there are to my knowledge more problems than this, or? Best regards, // Ola > -- > Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH | fon +49 711 90074-407 > Florian Ernst | Ruppmannstrasse 27 | fax +49 711 90074-33 > [email protected] | D-70565 Stuttgart | http://www.lf.net > > Handelsregister Stuttgart: HRB 18 189 > Geschaeftsfuehrer: Norman Fuerst, Rodney Volz > > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
