Control: tags -1 -moreinfo +confirmed On Sat, 2022-08-06 at 20:57 +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > On 2022-08-06, at 19:24:52 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 17:19 +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > > > The related xtables-addons bug is: > > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1014680 > > > > > > [ Reason ] > > > xtables-addons-dkms and xtables-addons-source contain sources for > > > building > > > kernel modules with DKMS and module-assistant, respectively. The > > > 5.10.0-16 > > > kernel introduced in the 11.4 point release included a patch > > > back- > > > ported from > > > 5.11 to 5.10.121: > > > > > > > The metadata of #1014680 implies that it affects the package in > > unstable and is not yet fixed there - is that correct? If so, then > > the > > fix needs to happen in unstable first; if not, please add an > > appropriate fixed version to make the situation clearer. > > The problem arose because an API-changing patch was back-ported from > 5.11 to 5.10 and this was picked up by the kernel released in 11.4. >
This part was clear... > The version of xtables-addons in unstable at the time 11.4 was > released > (3.19-1) supported the new API for kernel versions >= 5.11, and so > was > unaffected wrt. the kernel in unstable. > ...but this was not, at least to me, hence the question. Thanks for clarifying. > I have since uploaded the latest upstream release to unstable (3.21- > 1), > and that includes support for the problematic 5.10 kernels. The > patch I > have added in 3.13-1+deb11u1 is the one from upstream. I have added > a > fixed version to #1014680. > Thanks. > If you are happy to accept this change, is it a suitable candidate > for > stable-updates given that the package has been broken since 11.4 came > out? Potentially. Regards, Adam
