Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13 bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-04-02 Thread Colm Buckley
the precise meaning of "significant functionality" in the Debian policy. Colm On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 17:57, Colm Buckley wrote: > Please explain. I am really sorry to be dragging this discussion out, but > I honestly think there is some information I'm missing. Please tell me what &g

Re: Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13 bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-04-02 Thread Colm Buckley
even in DKMS? Colm On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 17:51, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:38:01PM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote: > > ... but the proposed dependency wouldn't address that, right? > > Actually it does. It ties all packages together with = dependencies.

Re: Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13 bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-04-02 Thread Colm Buckley
o need to keep -image and -headers in sync could install this. Thank you for taking the time to explain the problem; the earlier parts of this thread were very confusing to me. Colm -- Colm Buckley | c...@tuatha.org

Bug#1064976: Having headers depend on image - bad idea I think

2024-04-02 Thread Colm Buckley
e and headers packages. Users who regularly build new modules should be encouraged to install this package and have it pull in suitable versions of both headers and image. Is this correct, Bastian? I'm sorry for taking so long to understand what problem was being addressed here. Colm -- Colm Buckley | c...@tuatha.org

Bug#1064976: Having headers depend on image - bad idea I think

2024-04-02 Thread Colm Buckley
Control: reopen 1064976 My apologies for the ping-pong; I do want to keep this open until the discussion has completed. I will set out my thoughts below. I'm afraid this is fairly long. A brief history of this issue: in December 2023, the control file for linux-headers-* was altered to include a

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-amd64: linux-headers-* incorrectly depends on linux-image-*

2024-03-19 Thread Colm Buckley
Package: linux-headers-amd64 Version: 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1 Followup-For: Bug #1064976 X-Debbugs-Cc: c...@tuatha.org Can I suggest in the interim that Depends: be replaced with Recommends: or Suggests: given that most installations won't actually need the image package? Colm

Bug#1064976:

2024-03-14 Thread Colm Buckley
Hey folks - I see that linux-headers-* has been promoted to 6.6 in the BPO channel, but this dependency is still in place. Is it really the case that we want to drag in the image binaries and other machinery as a dependency for a source package like linux-headers. I feel that the BPF use case

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-03-04 Thread Colm Buckley
As per the discussion in https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1005 - once vmlinux.h is included with linux-headers, the warning about cmd_btf_ko etc. should be harmless, as that file should already be available (ie: there's no need to generate it again as part of kernel

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-02-29 Thread Colm Buckley
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:38:12 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:12:21PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > With the new vmlinux.h shipped in the headers package, the BTF case > > should be covered. > > The relevant code in Linux is: > > | quiet_cmd_btf_ko = BTF [M] $@ > |

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-02-29 Thread Colm Buckley
en run on this build server). Colm On Thu 29 Feb 2024, 11:03 Colm Buckley, wrote: > Why was this never the case before? And can you be more precise about what > "stuff" is missing? Is there a previous bug report I can reference? > > DKMS should handle its own depende

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-02-29 Thread Colm Buckley
ing images. Colm On Thu 29 Feb 2024, 10:31 Bastian Blank, wrote: > Control: tags -1 wontfix > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 05:19:39PM +, Colm Buckley wrote: > > The linux-headers packages for kernel version 6.6 seem to depend on the > corresponding > > linux-image packag

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-02-28 Thread Colm Buckley
Some previous versions, for contrast: % apt-cache depends linux-headers-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64 linux-headers-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64 Depends: linux-headers-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-common Depends: linux-kbuild-6.5.0-0.deb12.4 Depends: linux-compiler-gcc-12-x86 % apt-cache depends

Bug#1064976: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 incorrectly depends on the corresponding linux-image-amd64 package

2024-02-28 Thread Colm Buckley
Package: linux-headers-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: c...@tuatha.org Dear Maintainer, The linux-headers packages for kernel version 6.6 seem to depend on the corresponding linux-image packages, but I believe that this should not be the case (and was not the case in previous

Bug#939200: linux-image-5.2.0-2-amd64: M.2 I210 Ethernet adapter (igb) suddenly very high latency with kernel 5.2

2019-09-02 Thread Colm Buckley
Package: src:linux Version: 5.2.9-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This system is an Intel NUC with an onboard Intel I219-LM Ethernet adapter (e1000e) and an additional dual Intel I210 Ethernet adapter (igb) connected via the onboard M.2 interface (M.2 Dual Ethernet supplied by G2 Digital; I

Bug#914526: linux-image-4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: Invalidating filesystems can corrupt dentry table leading to busy loop in kernel.

2018-11-24 Thread Colm Buckley
Package: src:linux Version: 4.18.6-1~bpo9+1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Please see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git/commit/?h=for-linus - invalidating filesystems can cause dentry table corruption leading to busy loop in kernel. Easily