On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:34:56 +0000 js jb <em2ja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm surprised at the change between udev_240-2 and udev_240-4, since > I thought the -4 refers only to the debian revision but it resultedin > a significant change in the package's usability.
some patches were gracefully backported from the next release by Michael Biebl: it appears to me (please correct me if I'm wrong) that systemd uses a rolling release model, so there are not (yet) any point releases and it's up to the package maintainers to backport the bug fixes as this bug is a race condition, something that comes up in relation to the timings when things are executed, there is a chance these patches changed the timings and the bug don't come up anymore moreover, one of these patches may be fixed the roots of this race condition: "sd-device-monitor: fix ordering of setting buffer size" https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ee0b9e721a368742ac6fa9c3d9a33e45dc3203a2 the buffer was too small to receive all the uevents, if they were not processed in time by udev anyway I hope this explained why a debian revision resulted in code change and thus restored the usability ciao!
