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Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel

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Package: src:linux
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org

libbpf source has moved to a separate github repo but keeps the kernel
as the true/first source, and updating github repo when release is ready.
In Steve's word the problem they faced is:

> The problem I'm now having is that I'm looking at fixing and updating
> some of the code in this library, and since library versioning is
> critical for applications that depend on it, we need to have a way to
> update the versions, and this does not correspond with the Linux
> versions.

So, looking at libbpf github repo at [1], I can see libbpf has already
released v0.0.6 but we only have v0.0.5 in Debian and there is no way
to update that unless the kernel is updated to v5.5+. And looking at
the kernel repo I can see libbpf people are working on v0.0.7. The full
discussion is at [2].

Do we package libbpf from their github repo independent of the kernel
update? Then we will need to remove the libbpf building bits from the
Debian kernel source and create a separate package for libbpf.
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 libbpf should not be done separately and should live inside
kernel source package.


[1]. https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200102234950.GA14768@krava/

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Sudip

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Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 18:20 +0100
  Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2020-01-03 19:20 +0100
    Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 19:50 +0100
    Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Bastian Blank <bblank@thinkmo.de> - 2020-01-03 21:00 +0100
      Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 21:30 +0100
        Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-01-12 01:40 +0100
          Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-01-12 10:10 +0100
  Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> - 2020-01-15 07:20 +0100
    Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-01-15 14:00 +0100
      Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Bastian Blank <bblank@thinkmo.de> - 2020-01-18 16:50 +0100
        Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> - 2020-01-20 07:50 +0100
      Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 17:20 +0100
        Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-01-31 17:40 +0100
          Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2020-02-05 22:10 +0100
  Bug#948041: marked as done (libbpf-dev: please build from  https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-04-12 00:10 +0200

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