On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 12:37:44AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 11/02/2024 21.36, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > If I can add a comment: I (but note I'm not wearing a > > nvidia-graphics-drivers maintainer hat) would support that, as there > > are enough people affected by this. This is quite unfortunate and I'm > > open to hear ideas how we can try to avoid such fallouts. > > I was aware of the bug (#1062932) but not of the fact a point release was > upcoming. Even if I had been aware of the point release I'm not sure if I > had realized the impact of this bug to make me yell ;-) > Perhaps once point release dates have been choosen, this could be announced > to d-d-a@ as well. > I'm not following debian-release@ ... -ENOTIME
The point release dates go to debian-stable-annou...@lists.debian.org which is very low traffic. But I agree it's likely that it would have been a hidden problem anyway. > > As you know we are strictly following upstream stable series (and > > trying our best to keep an eye on as well regression reports upstream, > > but OOT modules are not explicitly tested, so neither the nvidia ones) > > Are autopkgtests being run for proposed-updates? That should have shown the > issue. > > It was unfortunate that this upstream backported change appeared in > proposed-updates first and in sid only a few days later. And the > metapackages from linux-signed-amd64 are still depending on the version > before this change was introduced ... so I only could reproduce the issue > (and verify fixes) manually. (The module build test done during the package > build did not use the regressing headers.) > > Then I had to spent quite some time verifying that the issue only happened > on amd64 and since the 460 series (despite of ppc64el having even more calls > to pfn_valid() dating back to the 418 series). > > Andreas > > PS: @Salvatore: Looking forward to see some linux 6.8 packages in > experimental s.t. I can throw them in my module build chroot to see what > breaks next :-) Or do you already have some early build available somewhere > while experimental is still preparing 6.7? -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 ed25519/0x196418AAEB74C8A1: CA619D65A72A7BADFC96D280196418AAEB74C8A1
