Bird 2.16 ASPA issue

[Jakub Ružička]

Hello,

On 1/6/25 10:51, Job Snijders wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 10:50:15AM +0100, Maria Matejka wrote:
>> The right one is "providers", yet there is probably some package out
>> with "provider", so i'm expecting to allow both in the end because we
>> botched it in such a stupid way.
> I'd recommend to rebuild the Debian packages, bump the sub version, and
> call it a day. This is a simple bug, 'provider' never was documented as
> being correct, afaik.
I was asked to prepare Debian packages before official release of

https://bird.network.cz/download/bird-2.16.tar.gz

so I've used v2.16 git tag at

4fb8fe6 NEWS and version update

however it turns out the official tarball doesn't correspond to the tag 
- it contains extra patches including

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/c926a6e105f7eb27ea3d1f7368a508eb42e0edf7

This discrepancy between the tarball and git is the cause for all this 
confusion as well as the need to rebuild packages.

Please make sure the official tarball matches corresponding git tag on 
future releases.

I also suggest re-creating v2.16 tag upstream on top of the commit that 
was actually used to create bird-2.16.tar.gz archive.

I'm starting bird2_2.16-cznic.2 packages build from official 
bird-2.16.tar.gz archive - they should hit the repos later today.


Cheers,
Jakub