[pkg-eucalyptus-maintainers] [Debian] Updating euca2ools to 1.3.1 ?

[Neil Soman]

Greetings Charles,

please see inline.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> perhaps it is time to update euca2ools to 1.3.1 in Debian.  Among the points
> that made me postpone this work, there is the large set of patches applied on
> the Ubuntu package, that are not used by Eucalyptus to update euca2ools on
> http://open.eucalyptus.com/downloads.  I do not have a good enough knowledge of
> euca2ools to review these patches, and as a general philosophy in Debian, I do
> not apply patches blindly.  Perhaps some of you remember the « OpenSSL
> incident » (DSA-1571-1), that affected only Debian because of a local patch.
>
> So I have two questions.
>
> First, if I upgraded Debian's package to version 1.3.1, would it cause
> significant difficulties to the current users of the package.  In particular,
> we need to pay attention that at the next Debian stable release, in 2012 or
> 2013, the upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3.1 must be supported and as automatic as
> possible.

This I can't answer directly, but I know that 1.3.1 includes a number
of useful fixes over 1.2 and we recommend all users upgrade to that.
On that note, we provide a package for squeeze at

http://open.eucalyptus.com/downloads.

This is based off of this code:
https://code.launchpad.net/~eucalyptus-maintainers/euca2ools/euca2ools-1.3-lp

I am not sure if the above code base includes all of the changes that
Ubuntu developers have made. The above package is what most of our
Debian users seem to be using.

> Second, how critical are the patches appliend in Ubuntu and is there any plan
> at Eucalyptus to apply or cherry-pick some of them to make a 1.3.2 update ?  Or
> are these patches very Ubuntu-specific ?

As far as going forward, we have already picked up most of these (and
fixed the ones that were distro specific), but haven't pushed out a
new version. The plan is to release euca2ools 1.4 (I assume that is
what it will be called) along with Eucalyptus 3.x in a few months (by
the end of the year at the latest).

That will be based off of this code base, which is the current
development branch:
https://code.launchpad.net/~eucalyptus-maintainers/euca2ools/euca2ools-main

Hope that helps.

cheers!
neil

> Have a nice day,
>
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> Charles Plessy
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> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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