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

David Medberry openstack at medberry.net
Fri May 15 11:11:42 UTC 2015


and a quick checks shows that there are number of differences just in the
nova source package, so I believe they remain independent.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 5:01 AM, David Medberry <openstack at medberry.net>
wrote:

> 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
>> To: OpenStack Operators; Openstack; OpenStack Development Mailing List
>> (not for usage questions)
>> Reply To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>> 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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