ACK/Cmnt: [PATCH noble] UBUNTU: [Packaging] add linux-bpf-dev package

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 07:46, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 18.10.24 20:55, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> >
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2050083
> >
> > Add a new binary linux-bpf-dev package that ships a generated vmlinux.h
> > header. This can be used by packages building CO-RE BPF programs instead
> > of generating it at build time based on the kernel running on the package
> > build system, which might or might not match the kernel that is actually
> > shipped. It ensures that a matching header can always be used.
> >
> > Matches changes in Debian, including the package name and header installation
> > location, so that we do not have to ifdef:
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/f52d006f3915ac4358dc8c98aa417477ebee026e
> >
> > This is already used by systemd to build various CO-RE programs, and
> > right now on Ubuntu due to the lack of this package the header is
> > generated from sysfs in the build system where the systemd packages are
> > built.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> > ---
> > This has been in Oracular for a while, if possible it would be great to have the
> > new package also in Noble, so that we can use it in the systemd upstream build
> > and CI.
>
> Looks to be added to the right place for being produced only with the
> main kernel package. Not taking anything away from other places (where
> they could be missed).

Gentle ping. Any chance this could be queued up for the next Noble
upload, please? Thanks!