On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 10:18:24AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > > On 5 May 2016, at 09:59, Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If people are OK about this, how do I get this upstream? > > > > Well, I'm not going to release updated upstream versions of this, and > > the most recent version of nbd doesn't expose the bug. > > Sure, it's already fixed upstream :-) > > > However, having > > that patch in distributions which still ships and older version of nbd > > does sure sound like a good idea. > > Cool. > > >> I'm happy to file an Ubuntu bug but I'm wondering if Wouter is the > >> Debian maintainer, and indeed whether we (I?) can simply push it as a > >> branch. > > > > I am the Debian maintainer, yes. What kind of branch do you mean, > > though? > > There are branches called 'debian-wheezy', 'debian-jessie' etc., > though I don't know what they do.
Oh, right. They contain the packaging stuff for Debian, for those suites. You'll see a change there once I have an ack from the stable release managers that this update will be allowed into Debian. > I suppose I was thinking > git checkout debian-jessie > git checkout -b debian-jessie-fixed > git am /path/to/patch > git push > > Ultimately I don't much care, just that the patch should be somewhere > in git I would have thought. > > But as you are Debian maintainer, and nbd maintainer, I think you > probably know better than me how to do this. Likely :-) > > I'm thinking it does make sense to push an update to Debian Jessie for > > this, too. It's a bit of an ugly bug. > > Great. > > Re Ubuntu, I filed an ubuntu bug, and Robbie Basak (Ubuntu) has > volunteered on IRC to sponsor an SRU to update Trusty. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nbd/+bug/1578185 > > I'm happy to shepherd this through the Ubuntu process. If > the Debian and Ubuntu packages are identical or near identical, > I'll work off your proposed update, rather than putting my > own patch on that bug. Your own patch is pretty solid, and "minimal patch" is a virtue for a stable update, so I'm likely to just copy it for stable :-) > -- > Alex Bligh > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager > Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of > your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and > reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z > _______________________________________________ > Nbd-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general > -- < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules, and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too. -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
