Hi!
Stefan Metzmacher asked whether I could package and upload liburing
for Debian (and as a side effect Ubuntu). And here are some of the
things I've noticed that would be nice to get fixed or improved
before I upload it there.
* The README states that the license is LGPL (I assume 2.1+ in
contrast to 2.1?) and MIT, but there's at least one header that's
GPL-2.0 + Linux-syscall-note, which I assume is due to it coming
from the kernel headers. Would be nice to have every file with an
explicit license grant, say at least with an SPDX tag, and update
the README.
* From the RPM spec file and the debian packaging in the repo, I
assume there is no actual release tarball (didn't see on in
kernel.dk nor kernel.org)? It would be nice to have one with a
detached OpenPGP signature, so that we can include it in the
Debian source package, to chain and verify the provenance from
upstream.
* The test suite fails for me on the following unit tests:
read-write accept-link poll-many poll-v-poll short-read send_recv
while running on Linux 5.5.0-rc0. I read from the README it is not
supposed to work on old kernels, and might even crash them. But it
would still be nice if these tests would get SKIPPED, so that I can
enable them unconditionally to catch possible regressions and so they
do not make the package fail to build from source on the Debian build
daemons due to too old kernels, which in most cases will be one from
a Debian stable release (Linux 4.19.x or so).
There are a couple of issues with the build system, for which I'll be
sending out a couple of patches later.
Thanks,
Guillem
