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+1 for revert.

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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > it seems that we've missed a new runtime dependency being backported
> > recently into Icehouse. The patch is [1], and it introduced
> > conntrack-tools dependency for L3 agent. This turned out as a problem
> > for existing distributions, specifically RHOSP5 [2] which is built for
> > both RHEL6 and RHEL7. In case of RHEL7, conntrack-tools is not
> > available neither in base OS repos nor in RHOSP5 specific ones. So Red
> > Hat will need to import the package into RHOSP5 repos. That's not
> > convenient but doable. The problem starts when you consider importing
> > the package for RHEL6 too. It may turn out that some support from
> > kernel may be missing (we're going to check that in the very near future).
> >
> > If RHEL6 conntrack-tools won't play nice, we'll be forced to patch the
> > fix out for the platform. I wonder whether we'll consider reverting
> > the patch in upstream if that's the case?
> >
> It seems to me that this should be reverted based on the information
> you've provided. This shouldn't have been merged given it pulls in
> this new runtime dependency, which may also pull in new kernel
> dependencies. I don't see any other way around this other than to
> revert the change.
> 
> > So my general point is that we should pay more attention to those kind
> > of runtime dependencies sneaking into stable branches, because it may
> > result in huge problems in downstream.
> >
> > Also, consider this email as a heads-up for other distributions.
> > Should we update release notes for the latest release to include that
> > info?
> >
> > [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/124375/
> > [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158871
> >
> > /Ihar
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