[lttng-dev] lttng-tools package version out of sync in debian testing/sid

[Jon Bernard]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> (CCing the ftpmaster team in case they can help us solve the situation)
> 
> I am an upstream maintainer of the LTTng project (http://lttng.org).
> 
> It appears that lttng-tools is currently out of sync with lttng-ust and
> lttng-modules in Debian and sid (unstable), and missing in Debian stretch
> (testing). It appears that this situation has been ongoing for a while.
> 
> The following search: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=lttng
> shows the situation:
> 
> - sid (unstable):
> 
> lttng-ust* : 2.7.2-1
> lttng-modules* : 2.7.2-1
> lttng-tools: 2.6.0-1ppc64el1
> liblttng-ctl0: 2.6.0-1ppc64el1
> liblttng-ctl-dev: 2.6.0-1ppc64el1
> 
> - stretch (testing):
> 
> lttng-ust* : 2.7.2-1
> lttng-modules* : 2.7.2-1
> lttng-tools: <none>
> liblttng-ctl0: <none>
> liblttng-ctl-dev: <none>
> 
> In the currently situation, users need to build lttng-tools from source
> to use lttng-ust and lttng-modules on Debian testing/sid, which defeats
> the purpose of distribution packages.
> 
> What can we do, as upstream, to help solve this packaging issue ?

I should have this resolved within a few days.  There was a prolonged
delay in the NEW queue for lttng-tools which caused the other dependent
package to block.  A rejection was eventually issued, but for some
reason I did not receive the notification - which could be my fault, I'm
not sure.  Either way, I'm about upload new packages which should
resolve the ftp-master concerns and things should unblock shortly.  I
must thank Michael Jeanson, he's been very helpful in preparing these
updates we should have this all fixed up very soon.

-- 
Jon