[openstack-dev] OpenStack 2015.1.0 for Debian Sid and Jessie

David Medberry openstack at medberry.net
Fri May 15 11:01:21 UTC 2015


Neil, I haven't inspected these packages but historically they are
independent.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:37 AM, <Neil.Jerram at metaswitch.com> wrote:

> Out of interest, have you done this by re-releasing the Ubuntu packaging?
> Or have you taken an independent approach?
>
> Regards,
>     Neil
>
>
>   Original Message
> From: Thomas Goirand
> Sent: Thursday, 14 May 2015 22:21
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> Subject: [openstack-dev] OpenStack 2015.1.0 for Debian Sid and Jessie
>
> Hi,
>
> I am pleased to announce the general availability of OpenStack 2015.1.0
> (aka Kilo) in Debian unstable (aka Sid) and through the official Debian
> backports repository for Debian 8.0 (aka Sid).
>
> Debian 8.0 Jessie just released
> ===============================
> As you may know, Debian 8.0 was released on the 25th of April, just a
> few days before OpenStack Kilo (on the 30th of April). Just right after
> Debian Jessie got released, OpenStack Kilo was uploaded to unstable, and
> slowly migrated the usual way to the new Debian Testing, named Stretch.
>
> As a lot of new packages had to go through the Debian FTP master NEW
> queue for review (they check mainly for the copyright / licensing
> information, but also if the package is conform to the Debian policy).
> I'd like here to publicly thank Paul Tagliamonte from the Debian FTP
> team for his prompt work, which allowed Kilo to reach the Debian
> repositories just a few days after its release (in fact, Kilo was fully
> available in Unstable more than a week ago).
>
> Debian Jessie Backports
> =======================
> Previously, each release of OpenStack, as a backport for Debian Stable,
> was only available through private repositories. This wasn't a
> satisfying solution, and we wanted to address it by uploading to the
> official Debian backports. And the result is now available: all of
> OpenStack Kilo has been uploaded to Debian jessie-backports. If you want
> to use these repositories, just add them to your sources.list (note that
> the Debian installer proposes to add it by default):
>
> deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
>
> (of course, you can use any Debian mirror, not just the httpredir)
>
> All of the usual OpenStack components are currently available in the
> official backports, but there's still some more to come, like for
> example Heat, Murano, Trove or Sahara. For Heat, it's because we're
> still waiting for python-oslo.versionedobjects 0.1.1-2 to migrate to
> Stretch (as a rule: we can't upload to backports unless a package is
> already in Testing). For the last 3, I'm not sure if they will be
> backported to Jessie. Please provide your feedback and tell the Debian
> packaging team if they are important for you in the official
> jessie-backports repository, or if Sid is enough. Also, at the time of
> writing of this message, Horizon and Designate are still in the
> backports FTP master NEW queue (but it should be approved very soon).
>
> Also, I have just uploaded a first version of Barbican (still in the NEW
> queue waiting for approval...), and there's a package for Manila that is
> currently on the work by a new contributor.
>
> Note on Neutron off-tree drivers
> ================================
> The neutron-lbaas, neutron-fwaas and neutron-vpnaas packages have been
> uploaded and are part of Sid. If you need it through jessie-backports,
> please just let me know.
>
> All vendor-specific drivers have been separated from Neutron, and are
> now available as separate packages. I wrote packages for them all, but
> the issue is that most of them wouldn't even build due to failed unit
> tests. For most of them, it used to work in the Kilo beta 3 of Neutron
> (it's the case for all but 2 of them who were broken at the time), but
> they appeared broken with the Kilo final release, as they didn't update
> after the Kilo release.
>
> I have repaired some of them, but working on these packages has shown to
> be a very frustrating work, as they receive very few updates from
> upstream. I do not plan to work much on them unless one of the below
> condition:
> - My employer needs them
> - things are moving forward upstream, and that these unit tests are
> repaired in the stackforge repository.
>
> If you are a network hardware vendor and read this, please push for more
> maintenance, as it's in a really bad state ATM. You are welcome to get
> in touch with me, and I'll be happy to help you to help.
>
> Bug report
> ==========
> If you see any issue in the packages, please do report them to the
> Debian bug tracker. Instructions are available here:
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>
> Happy installation,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
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