[lttng-dev] LTTng packages in Debian sid out of sync

[Jon Bernard]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> We've had a couple of user reports about lttng versions not working in Debian.
> 
> I'm looking at the current Debian sid, and here is the situation:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/lttng-tools : version 2.1.1-2
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/ltt-bin : version 2.1.1-2
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/lttng-modules-dkms : version 2.3.0-1
> 
> Although it's possible that lttng-modules 2.3.x will work with lttng-tools
> 2.1.x, this combination of versions is unsupported. We require that
> ust/tools/modules be updated in locked step between minor versions (2.1 with
> 2.1, 2.2 with 2.2, and so on). Also, 2.1 is starting to be quite old: we're
> currently working on an upcoming 2.4, and the last version (2.3) provides lots
> of cool features including flight recorder tracing and snapshot support.

Yes, I do apologize for the current state.  My first priority was to resolve the
blocked testing migration for ust and lttng-tools.  My upload yesterday seems to
have resolved the last of the ust package issues, and so now I need only to
upload the remaining fixes for lttng-tools and the two should be eligible for
migration to testing.  I decided it would be easier to fix the migration problem
first, and then update all of the versions to 2.3.x - it makes perfect sense to
me as a packager, but I also see it's completely backwards from a user's
perspective.

Sid should have 2.3.x immediately and I will push these versions before the
weekend ends.

The migration is also very important to me, as Jessie will freeze soon.  I will
continue on that front after 2.3.x is in sid.

Does this sound like a reasonable plan?

-- 
Jon