Hardy FFe: ltp snapshot should be updated

[Dustin Kirkland ]

Binary package hint: ltp

Feature Freeze Exception request:
The LTP packages in Hardy should be updated.

Reason:
The current LTP version in Hardy is from 2006-09-18. The latest version, from 2008-02-29, fixes a number of bugs and introduces hundreds of new tests which are applicable against a more modern kernel and Linux distribution. Such tests would be very useful to run against Hardy during its hardening/testing phases. Finally, the default run (runltp with no arguments) was broken in Hardy due to poor package installation. It is fixed in this new version. Note that the ltp package is not essential for Ubuntu operation, and nothing else depends upon it.

Diffstat of upstream changes:
In attached tarball (diffstat.txt)

Diff of upstream changelogs:
In attached tarball (changelog.diff)

Build log:
In attached tarball (build.log)

Install log:
In attached tarball (install.log)

Testing:
Tested on a hardy-amd64 system. Test output in attached tarball (run.log)

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Packages can be found in hardware-testing ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~hardware-testing/+archive

See:
ltp-20080229-0ubuntu1~ppa1

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

<keescook> sistpoty: I'm all for it.
:) the old one doesn't work at all.

-> ACK #1 from me.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

ACK #2 from me and confirmed.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Upload sponsored. Thanks for the packaging work!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ltp - 20080229-0ubuntu1

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ltp (20080229-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (LP: #199663)
  * debian/rules: Change release info to 20080229, network_commands moved to runtest/
  * debian/*/*: install in more appropriate /usr/lib/ltp rather than
    /usr/lib/debian-test, per FHS
  * debian/patches/*: dbs patching is evil, strip level is wrong.
  * debian/patches/10_pan_manpage.patch: patch renames a file, target file
    has changed, updated patch accordingly.
  * debian/patches/15_ltpmenu.patch: ported patch forward
  * debian/patches/30_amd64_buildfix.patch: drop .rej hunk, cthon04 test is
    no more so drop that hunk
  * debian/patches/40_fix_shmem9_on_sparc.diff: partially fixed upstream,
    port the rest forward, from ubuntu patchset
  * debian/patches/50_use_bash.diff: pull from ubuntu patchset
  * debian/patches/60_posix-fixes.patch: new patch, fixes runtime bashisms
  * debian/patches/61_use_ltptools_path.patch: runltp has some pathing issues
    when installed and relocated
  * debian/ltp-tools.install: runltp now requires ChangeLog
  * debian/ltp-kernel-test.install, debian/ltp-network-test.install: fs and fsx
    test should be in the kernel batch, not the network batch, add math, pty,
    nptl, containers, controllers, and filecaps to the kernel batch, per
    default runltp run

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:22:19 -0600