On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 08:47 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 07:40 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:56:42 +0100 Christian Ehrhardt
> > > > <christian.ehrhar
> > > > d...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > the patch seems to do more than just 4.14 which is good but
> > > > > needs
> > > > 
> > > > some
> > > > > discussion.
> > > > > I'll try to do some tests based upon it later on, but for now
> > > > > I
> > > > 
> > > > wanted
> > > > > to say that dropping the iproute transitionals requires
> > > > > fixing
> > > > > the
> > > > > following old dependencies first.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ipkungfu :Depends: iptables (>= 1.2.7), iproute, kmod, libc6
> > > > > (>=
> > > > 
> > > > 2.2.5)
> > > > > apf-firewall :Depends: iptables, lsb-base, wget, iproute
> > > > > arno-iptables-firewall :Depends: iptables, gawk, debconf |
> > > > > cdebconf,
> > > > > debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, iproute
> > > > > 
> > > > > --
> > > > > Christian Ehrhardt
> > > > > Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> > > > > Canonical Ltd
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > (Small world :-P )
> > > > 
> > > > FYI as agreed with Alexander, the iproute2 maintainer, I've
> > > > volunteered
> > > > to help. [1]
> > > 
> > > Indeed, hi Luca :-)
> > > 
> > > On the Ubuntu Side I couldn't wait so I already did some work and
> > > you
> > > can take a look what of that you want to pick up.
> > > This [1] includes suggested changes in this and other Debian
> > > bugs, as
> > > well as myself adding a autopkgtest case.
> > > In fact the latter already has a follow on fix in queue to make
> > > it
> > > work on non x86 [2].
> > > 
> > > I hope that will help you when you get to 4.14.x
> > > 
> > > cu
> > > Christian
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 4.14 is now in testing and unstable, I've started doing a couple of
> > packaging fixes.
> 
> Thanks Luca!
> 
> > I've imported the autopkgtest and patch for urandom (thanks!). Any
> > chance you could send that patch upstream?
> 
> This change is by me and of course I should send it upstream, I
> punted
> it on the pre-Christmas sprint :-)
> Thanks for reminding, see [1]

Thanks, acked

> > Also what's the story with those VXLAN Ubuntu patches? Are they
> > going
> > to be sent upstream?
> 
> Those are required to [2] only which AFAIK for now is Ubuntu only and
> therefore not upstreamed.
> Keep in mind that - just as you - I'm a drive-by-helper on this
> package, so I might lack some past context :-)
> 
> [1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=151487814431958&w=2
> [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FanNetworking

Sounds like an interesting feature, hope to see it upstreamed at some
point!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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