On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:54:11 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-dpdk-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org z...@debian.org
> 
> Hello Thomas and Release Team,
> 
> As we did for Bullseye and Bookworm, we are proposing the following
> plan to allow Trixie to ship with the latest LTS versions of DPDK and
> OVS. This will let us make use of the full LTS support windows for
both
> projects, as we have done for the past few releases.
> 
> Upload OVS snapshot from git (with new sonames/package renames if
> necessary), new OVN, DPDK 24.11 (currently in experimental) in early-
> to-mid December to unstable, to finish the transition. All other
> reverse build-deps of DPDK have already been prepared and uploaded to
> unstable/testing, and just need a binNMU (collectd, suricata, uhd).
> 
> Then, after OVS 3.5 releases in February, upload it unstable (no
> soname/transition required, as only bug fixes will go in at that
> point after the git snapshot).
> 
> The reason to use the git snapshot is that the OVS release that
> supports DPDK 24.11 is only scheduled for February, which will likely
> be too late for ABI transitions.
> 
> Would this plan work for everyone?
> 
> Bullseye and Bookworm tickets for reference:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024322
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=974588
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=974667

Hello,

We now have both dpdk and openvswitch in experimental, all built and
autopkgtest'ed and ready to go. Any chance we could please get this one
going so we can sort it before we all go out for the winter holidays?
Thanks!

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