From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ilya Nelkenbaum Subject: Re: [PATCH infiniband-diags] Adding support for Debian packaging Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:57:09 +0200 Message-ID: <513C58F5.8000803@dev.mellanox.co.il> References: <1361441897-19486-1-git-send-email-ilyan@mellanox.com> <512DB43C.5060801@dev.mellanox.co.il> <512E14E7.9020808@dev.mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Or Gerlitz , Narayan Desai , Ilya Nelkenbaum , Ira Weiny , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 2/27/2013 11:21 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: >> You can also take a look on the upstream trees for libibverbs and >> libmlx4 maintained by Roland which have a debian dir, which you >> probably can re-use for the managment libraries and opensm, here are >> the gitweb pointers, >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/infiniband/libibverbs.git;a=summary >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/infiniband/libmlx4.git;a=summary > > I happen to maintain the Debian packaging for libibverbs and libmlx4 > in the same source tree as the upstream source. However it's actually > easier in the case where the Debian packaging maintainer and the > upstream maintainer are different just to leave debian/ directory out > of the upstream source. If you're not really that familiar with > Debian packaging and Debian policy, it's probably best just to leave > the packaging to the Debian project. > > - R. > Hi Roland, As I understand Debian releases happen less often that the updates and bug fixes in management packages, and in case of critical bug fix or some important new feature, client that uses a specific package and needs the Debian support cannot just use the latest upstream version but will have to wait for the Debian release. So I guess in such cases it might help and it will also leave less work for the Debian maintainer What do you think? Ilya -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html