Bug#979703: user-mode-linux should track stable kernel release
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 +, 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
Bug#979703: user-mode-linux should track stable kernel release
Hi Christopher, Thank you for the patch. On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 12:29 +, 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. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#979703: user-mode-linux should track stable kernel release
Package: user-mode-linux Version: 5.10-um1 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 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. 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, Christopher Obbard
