On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:51:55 +0100 Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> wrote:
> But updating independently does not provide any benefit. As the kernel > repo is still upstream, all upstream chnages will flow into the Debian > archive. An extra package will always lag behind, as changes needs to > flow from kernel to external repo. > > > It might be better if we decide now what we want to do and tell them > > accordingly. > > Why should we? If the upstream developers decide to maintain it > independently, aka don't use the kernel repo as true source, or better, > remove the source from it, then we have something to do. > > Bastian Hi Bastian, Why should we switch from kernel sources to GH is a frequently asked question so the reason was explained in libbpf README [1]. There is another bug report on libbpf packaging filed earlier by me [2], feel merge it with this one. [1] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf#distributions [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942903
