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

From	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel
Date	2020-02-05 22:10 +0100
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Hi All,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 04:28:34PM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 4:11 PM Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 12:50 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > Hi Jonathan,
> > >
<snip>
> 
> >
> > So on balance I support moving libbpf out to a separate source package.
> 
> Thanks Ben.
> 
> As discussed, I will raise a merge request on the kernel repo to
> remove libbpf building bits. And then use this bug to deliver the new
> source package.

https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/207 has been
opened to remove libbpf from kernel.
#950760 is the RFS for the new upload which has been packaged from github.

--
Regards
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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