On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 02:43:45PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > Thanks for considering these patches for Debian. > > Hi Andy, > > I'm happy to bring support for openafs on the 3.18 kernel to Debian; it > hadn't been a priority yet since Debian is running a somewhat older > kernel. > > However, I'm more likely to do so by cherry-picking upstream's patches > than by importing Ubuntu's patches. There's actually a 1.6.11pre1 > upstream release candidate in the process of being announced (e.g., > https://github.com/openafs/openafs/releases/tag/openafs-stable-1_6_11pre1), > which should work on at least 3.18rc5 (I don't have data about rc6). > > Would you prefer to have 1.6.11pre1 in debian experimental or just the > 3.18- (and 3.17-)support patches pulled into debian unstable? There > probably would not be substantial harm from puttin 1.6.11pre1 itself into > unstable, but my general preference is to put prereleases into > experimental.
For Ubuntu I think what we have will tide us over until the upstream release is ready (and in Debian) so I don't think there is any need to pull a pre-release if that is not your normal practice. It is likely to make it long before we are set in stone here anyhow. Thank you for considering these changes. -apw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
