[SSSD] RFC: Backporting Nikolai's DEBUG patches to sssd-1-11

Pavel Březina pbrezina at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 13:45:36 UTC 2014


On 04/29/2014 03:24 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we've been keeping the sssd-1-11 branch fairly conservative recently,
> mostly as a precaution to not break downstreams that consume sssd-1-11,
> like RHEL.
>
> But some relatively larger features, such as the InfoPipe responder,
> need to be backported to sssd-1-11 (and by extension to RHEL-6) now. One
> large difference between master and sssd-1-11 are the DEBUG messages and
> I'd like to propose that we backport the new DEBUG messages to sssd-1-11
> and mass-convert the callers the same way we did in master.
>
> I think backporting the DEBUG messages change would be relatively
> low-risk, as the messages don't generally affect the behaviour of the
> daemon.
>
> The big downside of course is that we break git-blame and cause a bit of
> churn in sssd-1-11. But I think this downside it outweighted by not
> having to backport each and every DEBUG message from patches we'll be
> pulling in from master to sssd-1-11, which is all the SBUS changes Stef
> did recently and also all the work on the IFP responder.
>
> The next step would be backporting the SBUS changes, but I'd prefer a
> separate thread about those.
>
> Thoughts?

+1




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