Bug#1073855: ITS: kpatch

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:30:52 -0300 Santiago Ruano =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rinc=F3n?= <santiagorr at riseup.net> wrote:
> Source: kpatch
> Version: 0.9.7-2
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>, Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com>, Emmanuel Arias <eamanu at debian.org>, 1070494 at bugs.debian.org
> 
> Dear Dimitri,
> 
> As mentioned in https://bugs.debian.org/1072932#15, Emmanuel and I are
> interested in helping to maintain kpatch. It could be very useful in the
> context of the linux-livepatcing ITP (#1070494).
> 
> kpatch was removed from unstable on 10 June 2024. As mentioned in
> #debian-devel, since kpatch is still present in experimental, a regular
> ITS make sense.
> 
> Following the ITS process, this is the criteria to aim at salvaging
> kpatch:
> 
> * There were four RC bugs before the unstable package was removed. Among
>   those bugs, #1029189 as already been fixed in the wip/debian/0.9.9
>   branch of https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kpatch.
> 
> * Upstream has released several versions. The last upload was made to
>   experimental on 2022-11-29.
> 
> As mentioned above, https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kpatch contains a
> WIP branch that already builds. Test is needed, but we are working on
> it.
> 
> Could you please tell us if you agree or object on adding us as
> co-maintainers?

0.9.9-1 uploaded to unstable with a 7-day delay. Dimitri, please tell us
if you are OK with this.

Packaging is available at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/kpatch

Cheers,

 -- Santiago
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