On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 03:48:01PM +0000, Stokes, Ian wrote:
> > >From: [email protected]
> > >[mailto:[email protected]]
> > >On Behalf Of Ian Stokes
> > >Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 1:57 PM
> > >To: [email protected]
> > >Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v1] docs: Use DPDK 16.11.2 stable release.
> > >
> > >Modify docs and travis linux build script to use the DPDK 16.11.2
> > >stable branch to benefit from most recent bug fixes.
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <[email protected]>
> > 
> > One comment - I see references to 16.11 in $OVS_DIR/debian/changelog and
> > $OVS_DIR/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in.
> > 
> > Although these weren't updated for 16.11.1, I wonder if they should have
> > been, and consequently updated here for 16.11.2?
> HI Mark,
> 
> I'm not sure of those should be updated tbh, for debian it's under the header 
> of
> 
> openvswitch (2.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
> I think it should stay as 16.11 here as that's what was initially supported 
> for 2.7.0-1 I would guess.
> 
> If a new section for 2.7.1 is added I guess we could add it there (Im not 
> sure though as we haven't done this before).

debian/changelog is mostly a copy of NEWS.  It's meant to explain what
features were added in a release.  It doesn't make sense to update old
entries here, just as it doesn't make sense to update old entries in
NEWS.

> I'd be slow to update the reference in 
> $OVS_DIR/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in as its
> 
> BuildRequires: dpdk-devel >= 16.11
> 
> I would think the >= takes care of moving to the latest 16.11 available for 
> the distro?

That's my understanding too.
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