>From our IRC discussion who might work on it (as it is yet untriaged):
[09:50] <smb> cpaelzer, there was a tendency to do things like debian does. It
is on apw's list, however that is an ever changing territory
[09:52] <cpaelzer> if that is the case that is fine, could you or apw tell me
that on the bug and if - as of today - an ETA for 19.10 can be expected or not?
[09:52] <cpaelzer> then I can work on the DPDK merge this cycle on that
assumption
[...]
[10:00] <apw> cpaelzer, the short of it, is if you need it for 19.10 we can
sort that out i am sure; but you will need to remind us
Ok, there will be regular pings then :-)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Andy Whitcroft (apw)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- Please package libbpf (which is done out of the kernel src) in Debian
+ Please package libbpf (which is done out of the kernel src) in Debian [for
19.10]
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Title:
Please package libbpf (which is done out of the kernel src) in Debian
[for 19.10]
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Hi,
Debian packages libbpf and so far does so out of the kernel source [1].
There is some movement to separate that from the kernel source [2] but this
isn't ready yet. So far it is just a sync of the subtree out of the kernel
sources.
Since we do not share our kernel packaging we will not get this for-free
without doing anything.
If there will be an ITP about it in Debian I'll let you know and we can abort
this, but unless that really happens I wanted to ask if you could as well build
the libbpf* packages for 19.10 and onward?
Note: this is not the same bpf lib as [3] despite the similarity in
names.
Reasoning:
BPF becomes more and more important in general and is used in the kernel for
many things. In the case that brought it to my attention it will be a PMD of
DPDK that will need it to control XDP [4]. And XDP in general is an interesting
and rising feature for network acceleration - I'd think it would be helpful to
have this package around in Ubuntu.
[1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbpf-dev
[2]: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf
[3]: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
[4]: https://www.iovisor.org/technology/xdp
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