[14:13] <rbasak> guruprasad: opinion on bug 1943292 please? And any idea on the general distribution acceptability of requiring "new" kernel features? AFAICT, support existed in the previous LTS, so I can't think of any user-facing issues that would prevent this new requirement from being acceptable.
[14:30] <cjwatson> rbasak: I've triaged the bug report and left a comment there regarding timing.
[14:32] <cjwatson> rbasak: On new kernel features, that's mainly a question of Ubuntu policy rather than LP, I suppose.  Generally I think we've said that we need support in the previous LTS in order to avoid having upgrade problems, but haven't normally imposed stricter constraints than that.
[14:44] <rbasak> Thanks!
[14:46] <rbasak> It looks like autopkgtest runs newer kernels. I wonder if it'd be a sufficient workaround to move the test entirely to dep8.
[14:47] <cjwatson> rbasak: Just beware it may not be the same across all arches
[14:48] <rbasak> Yep. armhf is 5.4.0-72. I didn't look at all archs, but that may be new enough for example. Depends also if io_uring is actually compiled in there.
[14:48] <cjwatson> Yeah, I think armhf uses containers rather than VMs at present