Triage report (2021-04-09)

[Utkarsh Gupta]

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:39 PM Paride Legovini <paride at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> [haproxy] HAProxy 2.0.13 does not close connection even though
> "connection: close" is sent, leaves many connections in CLOSE-WAIT state
> for HEAD-method requests
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haproxy/+bug/1919468
>
> I've been able to reproduce the issue locally and to verify that it
> doesn't happen with haproxy 2.0.21 from
> https://launchpad.net/~vbernat/+archive/ubuntu/haproxy-2.0 (note:
> ~vbernat maintains haproxy in Debian and haproxy is currently a sync).
> However I couldn't spot which upstream change could have fixed the
> problem (more details in my comment).
>
> I wonder if we should bisect or consider SRUing the latest haproxy 2.0.x
> as a "new upstream microrelease", given that according to the changelog
> upstream never lands new features in patch level releases [1].

Whilst that seems to be the ideal solution, I wonder if the SRU team
would be okay with that? OTOH, another way that comes to my mind is
consulting with the upstream about this issue instead of us bisecting
our way through this and then just simply cherry-pick the fix upstream
suggests?


- u