[Olsr-dev] patches from Debian package WAS: Debian/Ubuntu package updates

[Hans of Guardian]

I'm happy maintaining these patches in Debian, so I'm not the one to bring them up for inclusion, especially the mips and quagga ones since I know nothing about that stuff.  But I'm also OK with anyone else looking into getting them included upstream.

.hc

On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Ferry Huberts wrote:

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> On 02/04/13 23:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 
>> I'm moving this to olsr-dev since its become a dev conversation:
>> 
>> Here are the remaining patches:
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/collab-maint/deb-maint/olsrd/trunk/debian/patches/
>> 
>> I see no point in maintaining the Debian-specific patches in the olsr git.
>> Those patches are to force olsrd into Debian policy, things like using
>> /etc/olsrd/ and /usr/lib/olsrd, turning of the src/builddata.c generation hack
>> since that's handled in the packaging tools, etc:
>> 
>> 110-build_fix.patch
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> we don't want this one
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>> 290-hardcode-etc-olsrd-olsrd-conf.patch
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> please submit on the ML so that we can discuss it
> 
>> 
>> Two other patches, I have no idea how they should be handled, they were there
>> when I started working on the package:
>> 
>> 111-build-mips-and-armhf.patch
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> please submit on the ML so that we can discuss it
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>> 260-quagga-plugin-detect-protocol-version.patch
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> please submit on the ML so that we can discuss it
> 
>> 
>> The last patch includes the last of the Debian hardening flags that have not
>> been included yet. It makes sense to me to include those upstream if it makes
>> sense on all of the supported platforms.  Or someone would have to figure out
>> how to make it apply to only the platforms that should have it:
>> 
>> 310-hardening-fixes.patch
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> 
> please submit on the ML so that we can discuss it
> 
>> .hc
>> 
>> 
>> I
>> On 04/02/2013 11:23 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> do you think it would be feasible (maybe for the 0.6.5.2 upload) to
>>> create a "v0.6.5.2_debian" branch where you commit all the patches
>>> that got uploaded into the Debian release?
>>> 
>>> That would make it easier for us to help Debian users, because we can
>>> quickly see what code they are running.
>>> 
>>> Henning
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> For basically any sizeable distro, there is a 'stable' release and a 'current'
>>>> release.
>>>> 
>>>> For squeeze/stable, only security or total breakage bugs can be fixed, and
>>>> only with very targetted patches.  That's basically the same with
>>>> wheezy/testing, since its about to be released.  For unstable, I can put
>>>> whatever version in, and that will also be included in the upcoming Ubuntu
>>>> release.  experimental can have anything, and nothing relies on it.
>>>> 
>>>> I uploaded 0.6.3-6 to unstable so it gets included in Ubuntu/raring.  Its very
>>>> well tested at this point.  Once 0.6.5.2 gets more testing, I'll push it to
>>>> unstable.
>>>> 
>>>> .hc
>>>> 
>>>> On 04/02/2013 12:34 AM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 02/04/13 08:17, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just pushed a bunch of package updates, here's how things stand now:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Debian:
>>>>>> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=olsrd
>>>>>> * wheezy: 0.6.2 with the net_output stack fix from 0.6.4
>>>>>> * squeeze-backports: the wheezy version above
>>>>>> * unstable: 0.6.3 with the net_output stack fix from 0.6.4
>>>>>> * experimental: 0.6.5.2 with some hardening flags
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ubuntu: same as Debian/unstable
>>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion/+packages
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any testing, feedback, etc. is most appreciated!
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why not straight from the release branch for all?
>>>>> (0.6.5.2 + the 4 patches at the time of writing)
>>>>> 
>>>>> We're doing the maintenance on the release branch especially for
>>>>> distributions. If they're not using that then there's no point in us
>>>>> doing that, IMHO.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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