Dear maintainer,

I would like to request a stable-backport of the passt package.

We have been using pasta for rootless Podman networking on GitLab
runners, and have found that when using the version currently packaged
for trixie, on very busy runners with many containers spawning and
despawning, the process will eventually starts leave unclosed TCP
sockets that accumulate until we're plagued with connection errors from
within containers.

Using the package from unstable allows us to work around the issue, but
we would prefer using a proper backport.

Thanks!

Hi Jérôme,

Thanks for the report. Did you already identify a set of patches that
would fix this?

This smells like https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=179, which
would be fixed by these commits:

https://passt.top/passt/log/?qt=range&q=eb3babf7b4cf3793e0ed48030db958ace6546d7e..d2f7c21cfb949f2b1587b9475917efdd6ac549fd

I haven't checked how involved a backport would be in this case, even
though at a glance I'd say it should be doable.

Hi Jérôme,

Thanks for the report. Did you already identify a set of patches that
would fix this?

This smells like https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=179, which
would be fixed by these commits:

https://passt.top/passt/log/?qt=range&q=eb3babf7b4cf3793e0ed48030db958ace6546d7e..d2f7c21cfb949f2b1587b9475917efdd6ac549fd

I haven't checked how involved a backport would be in this case, even
though at a glance I'd say it should be doable.

Hi Stefano,

Unfortunately I didn't bisect the upstream repo so I haven't identified
any commits or patchsets that fix the problem. I can only say with
confidence that the package from unstable doesn't exhibit the problem.

Thanks.


Le 2026-08-13 à 07 h 29, Stefano Brivio a écrit :

Hi Stefano,

Unfortunately I didn't bisect the upstream repo so I haven't identified
any commits or patchsets that fix the problem. I can only say with
confidence that the package from unstable doesn't exhibit the problem.

Thanks.


Le 2026-08-13 à 07 h 29, Stefano Brivio a écrit :