Hi Ritesh,
On 10/01/2021 16:58, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
Hi Christopher,
Thank you for the patch.
On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 12:29 +0000, Christopher Obbard wrote:
The package user-mode-linux is built from the debian package linux-
source which follows semantic versioning guidelines. The version used
for the user-mode-linux package isn't descriptive enough, only using
the major and minor release and dropping the minor release.
The package should have the same version as the version of linux-
source used to build the binary package. Consider:
$ apt-cache show user-mode-linux | grep 'Version\|Built-Using'
Version: 5.10um1
Built-Using: linux (= 5.10.4-1)
$ linux --version
5.10.4
Yes. Otherwise, it would warrant a version bump with every update. As
you already mention, Built-Using will give the exact version. >
This can result in the user-mode-linux package getting out of sync
compared to the linux-source package, potentially loosing some useful
patches, bug-fixes and security updates along the way. Since the
linux-source package also includes debian-specific kernel patches, it
is best to track the linux-source version rather than kernel.org
version.
Well, the way it has been managed so far is the maintainer and other
interested users keeping an eye on the updates to linux-source package
and request a (binary-only) rebuild of the user-mode-linux package,
which then picks up the latest linux-source packages' changes.
Ideally, I would like to see an automated way of doing this but so far
this has been done manually.
In the longer run, in the most ideal scenario, user-mode-linux should
be built as one of the targets of the linux package itself. But that
hasn't happened at all.
I've written a quick-and-dirty watch file to attempt to track the
linux package tags:
https://salsa.debian.org/uml-team/user-mode-linux/-/merge_requests/7
Thanks. I have merged it into the packaging repository. So this should
now give a nice notifier on the Debian Tracker page, when the linux-
source package is newer.
But requesting a rebuild would still be a manual step.
Right, that all makes sense. In the meantime a rebuild of
user-mode-linux for Linux 5.10.5 would resolve my immediate issue, so I
will open a new bug for that. I guess resolving #837920 (to build from
src:linux) would also resolve this bug: so I am happy for you to close
this as a duplicate of #837920.
thanks!
Christopher Obbard
