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Re: Next d-i alpha release: late June



Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> (2016-06-25):
> On 2016-06-25, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> > Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2016-06-25):
> >> on armhf we currently face some u-boot-related problems. U-Boot
> >> 2016.03 (in unstable and testing) causes kernel hangs under certain
> >> conditions on a number of sunxi platforms.  These issues are fixed in
> >> u-boot v2016.05 (latest official release), but v2016.05 has brought
> >> new regressions on the am57xx_evm and firefly-rk3288 platforms, so it
> >> cannot go into the archive as is.  For details, please refer to
> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825214.
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up.
> >
> >> I would be good to have the u-boot issues fixed before we publish the
> >> next d-i release.  A possible option would be to backport commit
> >> affa020559bca31d6531e19cb1f009c22705a73d from u-boot 2016.05 to
> >> u-boot 2016.03 and to urgent the result into testing before doing the
> >> d-i release (CCing Vagrant Cascadian, the u-boot maintainer).
> >> 
> >> Kibi, Vagrant: what's your opinion on the topic?
> >
> > If the fixes are identified and can be applied on top of the current
> > packages in unstable, pushing them (upload & urgent) looks like a good
> > plan to me. :)
> 
> I can prepare and upload of 2016.03 with patches, but I'm not able to do
> as much testing as usual, as i wouldn't be able to recover if the board
> tests fail (due to debconf)... but if the patches are limited in scope,
> it should be fairly safe to upload.

I understand; AFAICT from Karsten's mail, the scope is indeed very
limited if affa020559bca31d6531e19cb1f009c22705a73d is to be
cherry-picked alone, so we should be on a rather safe side here?


KiBi.

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