[ovs-dev] Bug#974588: Bug#974588: openvswitch: DPDK 20.11 support and transition for bullseye

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sat, 2021-01-09 at 15:50 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 20:14, Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 19:53, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On 1/7/21 4:54 PM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > as an FYI Ubuntu moved to recent commit def6eb1ea and for us it seems
> > > > to work fine so far.
> > > > See the package at:
> > > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.15.0~git20210104.def6eb1ea-0ubuntu3
> > > > 
> > > > With that confirmed and the feature freeze coming soon. Would you mind
> > > > doing a similar upload to Debian-experimental soon'ish?
> > > 
> > > So, basically, you wish that I package the tip of master in
> > > Experimental? I'll see if I find the time to do it. However, I very much
> > > would prefer if upstream OVS could cut a (alpha / beta) tag.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> > 
> > Yes, given time is running out we need to get the transition starting
> > ASAP, unfortunately. The upstream OVS timeline for RCs and releases
> > unfortunately doesn't quite align and would be too late. I asked the
> > release team for an exception but I had no answer, so at this point it
> > seems to me the safest course of action is to assume we're not getting
> > one.
> > 
> > There has been extensive testing of that commit id by Canonical, so it
> > should be safe to use in unstable/testing for a month, until the
> > proper release.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> I've prepared an MR:
> https://salsa.debian.org/openstack-team/third-party/openvswitch/-/merge_requests/6
> 
> The changes look quite simple and they are based on the Ubuntu
> package. Exact same upstream snapshot is used, so that we know it's
> been tested. I have build-tested it in a chroot with libdpdk-dev from
> experimental.
> 
> Please, can we get this sorted soon? Would you be OK with an NMU to
> experimental?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi

Hello,

2.15 was released yesterday as planned:

https://www.openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.15.0.txt

Thomas, do you have time to fast-forward from
2.15.0~git20210104.def6eb1ea to the released tag?

Thank you!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi