[MIR] linux-raspi

[Dave Jones]

[Availability]
The package is already in universe.

[Rationale]
The package is a core component on all supported Raspberry Pi images, both classic and core as it is responsible for pulling in the Raspberry Pi-specific kernel and headers.

[Security]
The raspi kernel is a derivative of the main/generic kernel (it's the same code-base with raspi specific patches and config changes). The kernel team track CVEs for the main kernel and do CVE respins of the Pi kernel in parallel with the main kernel (and all its other derivatives) if they think that a particular CVE affects the Pi kernel. They currently don't track Pi specific CVEs.

[Quality assurance]
There are no outstanding bugs which significantly affect the usability (i.e. our images boot successfully on all supported pi models), but there are high priority bugs open against our Pi kernel which we are actively working through (e.g. LP: #1857760).

[Dependencies]
There are no special dependencies compared to the main kernel package.

[Standards Compliance]
There are no differences in standards compliance to the main kernel package.

[Maintenance]
The package will be maintained by the kernel team.

[Background information]
As mentioned, this package is already used for all our pi images, so we are effectively already treating it as a package from main.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

IMHO this isn't any different than the other flavor kernels like linux-azure and such which are all in main.

Does this really need a full new MIR process?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Discussed in the MIR meeting:

[15:02] <cpaelzer> and actually I don't think this even needs a review
[15:02] <cpaelzer> this is a kernel source like the many kernel sources built by the kernel team
[15:02] <cpaelzer> just another flavor of it
[15:03] <cpaelzer> doko: how did we add e.g. -azure and -gce abck in the day
[15:03] <cpaelzer> does this really need a review - or can we promote it right away?
[15:04] <cpaelzer> joeubuntu: sarnold: and from your POV - adding those would be a no-op right?
[15:05] <cpaelzer> you track kernels anyway I guess
[15:06] <joeubuntu> I don't see a problem, sarnold your thoughts ?
[15:06] <sarnold> cpaelzer: yeah, I'm not sure how the zoo of kernels works out
[15:06] <cpaelzer> doko: how was this handled in the past
[15:06] <cpaelzer> I'd prefere to just do it the same way
[15:06] <cpaelzer> which most likely means no new MIR process needed on this
[15:06] <sarnold> cpaelzer: the one funny thing with pi is that it seems to have binary blobs that may be less maintainable than more 'normal' machine kernels
[15:07] <sarnold> cpaelzer: but that seems more like a business decision, "is this platform important enough to pay the costs", and hope that our partners will be able to supply us with fixes in five, ten years
[15:11] <doko> cpaelzer: no MIR required in the past, same as for the versioned source packages
[15:11] <cpaelzer> thank doko, can I assign it to you for promotion on thaose terms then?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Override component to main
linux-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal: universe/devel -> main
linux-buildinfo-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-buildinfo-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-headers-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-headers-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-image-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-image-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-modules-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-modules-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi-headers-5.4.0-1008 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi-headers-5.4.0-1008 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi-tools-5.4.0-1008 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi-tools-5.4.0-1008 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-tools-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
linux-tools-5.4.0-1008-raspi 5.4.0-1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/devel/optional/100% -> main
15 publications overridden.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Override component to main
linux-meta-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal: universe/devel -> main
linux-headers-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-headers-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-headers-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-headers-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-image-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-image-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-image-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-image-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: main/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: main/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-tools-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-tools-raspi 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/kernel/optional/100% -> main
linux-tools-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal arm64: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
linux-tools-raspi2 5.4.0.1008.8 in focal armhf: universe/metapackages/optional/100% -> main
17 publications overridden; 2 publications remained the same.