Bug#983719: esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs
Hi Faidon, First of all thank you for your work on esptool update. I'm currently using my available time to work on avrdude for bookworm. If you wish to co-maintain esptool package feel free to add yourself to uploaders of this package. I agree with your assessment. The best course at this point is to upload the updated package version together with the newly introduced dependencies to sid and let the system to auto-remove the old package from bookworm. As soon as bookworm gets released we can make the updated esptool available via bookworm-backports. Milan On 2/21/23 07:16, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Control: retitle -1 Package is severely outdated Control: severity -1 serious This package is severely outdated. esptool v2.8, as currently packaged in Debian, was released in October 2019, almost 3.5 years ago. Upstream has regularly released newer versions every few months in the meantime, with the latest being v4.5, released last week. Newer versions bring a myriad of fixes, as well as equally importantly, support for newer chips that can be found in the wild. As I've also reported in #948096, esptool in Debian is crippled right now by not including any flasher stubs, limiting its usefulness. The removal was justified at the time, but some of the underlying reasons have been resolved for a long time now for several of the supported chips, and only require simple patches to be applied to restore. (Also note: the packaging and DFSG-ness can be simplified quite a bit, since the binary blobs are now split into JSON files in the build tree, that can be cleaned up with Files-Excluded, removing the need for modifying the source through the uupdate script.) Given how outdated the source is, and the lack of responses from the maintainer in the BTS, I do not believe the package is fit for the next release, therefore I'm elevating the severity to RC. I should note that while the package seems to meet the criteria for Salvaging (DevRef 5.12) I don't currently have the bandwidth to maintain it properly in the long run either. I'm happy to do a one-off NMU to bring it to a more decent shape, however. Best, Faidon
Bug#983719: esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:16:41PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > I also have changes underway for 4.5, but currently looking into what it > would take dependency-wise to accomplish this, as there are 1-2 new > Python module dependencies that are not present in Debian yet. I'll > follow up once I have something; I expect this to be in the next week or > so. I packaged the two new dependencies mentioned above: * python-reedsolo, which entered unstable this week; and * python-pkcs11 (used only conditionally, for espsecure's HSM bits), which is waiting in NEW for about a week now. I moved the repository to the DEP-14 layout, rebased the feature/2.8-update branch, and then built on top of it in the new debian/experimental branch. This now has 4.5.1, with lots of other fixes and flasher stubs! I'd consider this a release candidate for an experimental upload once pkcs11 passes through NEW. Faidon
Bug#983719: esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 02:16:40PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > I should note that while the package seems to meet the criteria for > Salvaging (DevRef 5.12) I don't currently have the bandwidth to maintain > it properly in the long run either. I'm happy to do a one-off NMU to > bring it to a more decent shape, however. Update: I pushed a branch into the main repo, feature/2.8-update, that just brings up the packaging to modern standards and switches to using pybuild -- a step necessary given new upstream releases are now using Python modules etc. This is still tagged as a 2.8+dfsg-1.1 release that builds the package as-is with enhancements and no regressions. I also have changes underway for 4.5, but currently looking into what it would take dependency-wise to accomplish this, as there are 1-2 new Python module dependencies that are not present in Debian yet. I'll follow up once I have something; I expect this to be in the next week or so. Regards, Faidon
Processed: Re: Bug#983719: esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 Package is severely outdated Bug #983719 [esptool] esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs Changed Bug title to 'Package is severely outdated' from 'esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs'. > severity -1 serious Bug #983719 [esptool] Package is severely outdated Severity set to 'serious' from 'important' -- 983719: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983719 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
Bug#983719: esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs
Package: esptool Version: 2.8+dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: broken $ esptool erase_flash esptool.py v2.8 Found 3 serial ports Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 Connecting Detecting chip type... ESP32 Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1) Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None Crystal is 40MHz MAC: 3c:71:bf:03:2e:0c Enabling default SPI flash mode... Erasing flash (this may take a while)... A fatal error occurred: ESP32 ROM does not support function erase_flash. ... umm ... YES IT DOES. Version 3.0 works. Please upgrade. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (550, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages esptool depends on: ii libc6 2.31-9 ii python3 3.9.1-1 ii python3-ecdsa 0.13-3+deb10u1 pn python3-pyaes ii python3-serial 3.4-4 esptool recommends no packages. esptool suggests no packages.
Processed: Bug#983719: esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > owner 983719 ! Bug #983719 [esptool] esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs Owner recorded as Milan Kupcevic . > severity 983719 important Bug #983719 [esptool] esptool: Version 3.0 fixes critical bugs Severity set to 'important' from 'serious' > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 983719: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983719 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
