[Jessie] Status on the RC bugs in systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Niels,

Am 17.03.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Niels Thykier:
> Hi Systemd maintainers,
> 
> Can you help me with a status with the following:
> 
>  * Are there some of the remaining RC bugs that you believe /must/ be
>    fixed for Jessie?
> 
>  * Are there some of the remaining RC bugs that you believe
>    could/should wait for Stretch?
> 
>  * How long do you expect it will take for you to fix the "must-have"s?
>    Can we improve that estimate by throwing "random people" at some of
>    the bugs?  (i.e. would it be helpful if I advised people you assist
>    you with some of the bugs like I did with grub2)
> 
> 
> I also vaguely remember being asked to pre-approve some patch (which got
> approved).  Is that targeted for Jessie?


A quick overview, we do have 7 open RC bugs, 4 of them have patches, one
is in review for [0], the /tmp issue.

The missing sources one [1], I'd like to tag jessie ignore. And even for
stretch, if we can not get upstream on board, this would be an
unmaintainable mess.

We sort of have a patch/workaround for [2], but apparently the root
cause is not found yet. I'm not too familiar with that code and Marco,
its author, seems to be busy atm.

Then there are a few more fixes which are not RC, which we'd like to get in.
Martin committed those to git already:
-
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=bb539765025829d34bf9d224b2e5b7f568148b8a
-
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=2800ab31fd968656edf03b8d2784edc0d150bed5

The following I'd like to cherry-pick from the experimental branch,
where we've had them for a while. It turns out, using a target for a
$x-display-manager was not the right choice, as this could activate
multiple display managers, when installed.
So instead we map that to display-manager.service now. A symlink
pointing at a single display manager (quite similar to how the default
syslog daemon is determined)
-
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=1a0f0b3fcc75e39235e84239085562d107007eab
-
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=cde43b9ed2c2a6a1a6481073b81fa61ec3509150


I'll see to it, that I'll get a package ready this weekend for the 4 RC
bug fixes at least and maybe include the one for [0].

Should I upload directly or run the diff by you/debian-release first?

Cheers,
Michael


[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779902
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780650
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765577


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