[Jessie] Status on the RC bugs in systemd

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Tue Mar 24 06:59:17 GMT 2015


On 2015-03-20 04:25, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi Niels,
> 
> [...]
> 

Hi,

> 
> 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.
> 

Ok, I have tagged -ignore + -can-defer for now.  Btw, it is now tagged
fixed-upstream.  :)

> 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.
> 

Ok.

> 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

Sure,

> -
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=2800ab31fd968656edf03b8d2784edc0d150bed5
> 

Honestly, not a priority for Jessie, but I see no reason to revert it
either.

> 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
> 

Ack, seems reasonable.

> 
> 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
> 

Please go ahead (also with the pre-approved patch in the follow up) as
soon as you got your disk working again.

~Niels






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