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Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool

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On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 14:24, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 14:00 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 00:17, Sudip Mukherjee
> > <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 23:27, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 19:00:59 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 20:04 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > > And so, it will be great if kernel team will like to package and
> > > > > > maintain it, if not, then I will be happy to do it. Please
> > > > > > reject this bug report if you think bpftool should not be done
> > > > > > separately and should live inside kernel source package.
> > > > >
> > > > > Since you are already maintaining libbpf I would be happy to hand
> > > > over
> > > > > bpftool to you.  I will try to discuss this at this evening's team
> > > > > meeting.
>
> Unfortunately we didn't have time for it this time.

No problem. And even if bpftool is built as a new package, I think
Luca will like to keep bpftool with kernel team. Whoever maintains it,
as long as a release version is packaged and not a development
version, all is good.  So, I will leave it with you and the kernel
team.
Please ping me if you need me to do anything.

>
> > > > What about moving libbpf and bpftool to the kernel team area under
> > > > Salsa? That way more people can help, and it can use salsa-ci too
> > >
> > > bpftool is already with the kernel team and being built from kernel
> > > source. And I anticipated that bpftool will move to github like
> > > upstream libbpf did and also mentioned that at
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948041#83. So, its
> > > upto the kernel team what they want to do with bpftool -
> > > 1. continue to build from kernel source and we can just close this bug
> > > 2. Split bpftool from kernel source and package it from github. The
> > > kernel team can maintain if they want to maintain an userspace
> > > package. If the kernel team does not want to maintain it, I can do
> > > that.
> > >
> > > About libbpf, I am confused with your message. What kind of help? Are
> > > you seeing that libbpf is not maintained properly?
> >
> > I'm not talking about the upstream source, but about the debian
> > repository: given both of these are inextricably tied to the kernel, I
> > think it would be good to have the downstream repositories in salsa,
> > in the kernel-team area - and of course, still including yourself as
> > repo owner. The kernel team is not only for the kernel package, but
> > also other kernel-adjacent packages like ethtool, iproute2, firmware,
> > iw, etc: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team
>
> Ah, I hadn't noticed that the libbpf packaging was on Github.
>
> I agree with Luca that it would be preferable to have these on Salsa
> but I don't have a strong opinion on whether they should be in the
> kernel-team group.

Absolutely. I dont remember why some of my packages (from 2019 - 2020)
are in github. But I will definitely move them to salsa.
About moving it under kernel team, I think I will say "no" to that
unless Luca can give some very good reasons about what is missing now
that will change if ts moved under kernel team.


-- 
Regards
Sudip

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Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2023-12-02 21:10 +0100
  Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-05-30 00:40 +0200
    Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2024-05-30 01:30 +0200
      Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-05-30 15:10 +0200
  Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2024-06-01 22:20 +0200
    Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-06-19 22:10 +0200
  Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2024-07-17 22:10 +0200

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