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        "Subject": "[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 ovn 0/6] Debian packaging and CI improvements.",
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        "From": "Ihar Hrachyshka via dev <ovs-dev@openvswitch.org>",
        "Reply-To": "Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachyshka@nvidia.com>",
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    "content": "This series includes the following changes:\n- Fix debian packaging; make it more hermetic.\n- Build debian packages via GitHub Actions.\n- Other minor CI improvements.\n\nYou can find the result of the GitHub Actions workflow for this series\nhere: https://github.com/booxter/ovn/actions/runs/22190609192/job/64176993386\n\nv1: initial version.\nv2: dropped ARM GitHub workflows; dropped adding more test-only deps.\n\nIhar Hrachyshka (6):\n  debian: Configure ovs submodule during build.\n  debian: Don't run unstable tests.\n  github: Add debian packaging workflow.\n  github: Disable Microsoft apt repos.\n  ci: Make linux-util.sh posix compliant.\n  ci: Remove redundant shebang from linux-util.sh.\n\n .ci/linux-util.sh                             | 12 ++--\n .github/actions/prepare-apt/action.yaml       | 14 ++++\n .github/workflows/containers.yml              |  2 +-\n .../workflows/ovn-fake-multinode-tests.yml    | 14 ++--\n .github/workflows/ovn-kubernetes.yml          |  4 +-\n .github/workflows/ovn-upgrade-tests.yml       | 11 +--\n .github/workflows/test.yml                    | 68 +++++++++++++++++--\n Makefile.am                                   |  1 +\n debian/rules                                  |  8 ++-\n 9 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 .github/actions/prepare-apt/action.yaml"
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