APPLIED: [EOAN][UNSTABLE][PATCH v2 0/1] add bpftool to linux-tools-common

[Seth Forshee]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 06:43:52PM +0100, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774815
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> bpftool is a debugging and introspection tool for BPF elements, developed by
> the BPF kernel community. It is essential to list and dump BPF programs and
> maps loaded on the system. Its sources are located in the kernel repository,
> and because it is not packaged, administrators willing to use bpftool must
> download the whole kernel sources, compile and install the utility.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Adding bpftool to linux-tools and linux-tools-common packages makes it easily
> accessible. These packages are already used to provide other tools located in
> the kernel repository, such as perf.
> 
> [Testcase]
> 
> A test linux package was successfully built, at:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~qmonnet/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-linux-bpftool
> 
> (Built with:
>   do_zfs=false
>   do_dkms_nvidia=false
>   do_dkms_vbox=false
>   skipabi=true
>   skipmodule=true
>   skipretpoline=true)
> 
> Packages linux-tools-$(uname -r) and linux-tools-common can be built with
> "debian/rules binary", and contain bpftool's binary and related files
> (redirection script, bpftool manual pages, bash completion), respectively.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
> Low, as far as I can tell: bpftool packaging does not change the way
> other tools are packaged (apart from creating $(toolsman)/man8 a few
> lines earlier), and should have no impact on the packaging of other
> tools. One dependency is added to Build-Depends-Indep, none is removed.
> 
> ---
> This set was originally submitted for bionic [0], but rebased for the
> development branch on Kleber's advice [1]. The version for bionic
> included a backported patch from linux 4.16 for fixing bpftool build
> following a change in bfd.h from binutils-dev (commit fb982666e380
> ("tools/bpftool: fix bpftool build with bintutils >= 2.9")), but this
> commit is already present in kernel 5.2.
> 
> [0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2019-July/102462.html
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2019-August/103095.html
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Switch from python-docutils to python3-docutils for the dependency
>   providing rst2man for manual pages.
> - Set CROSS_COMPILE when building bpftool.

Applied to eoan/master-next and unstable/master, thanks!