A new Debian package build of Cassandra 2.2.6 has been created, see:
[[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~eevans/debian/cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3.dsc | cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3.dsc ]]
[[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~eevans/debian/cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3.diff.gz | cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3.diff.gz ]]
[[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~eevans/debian/cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3_all.deb | cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3_all.deb ]]
[[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~eevans/debian/cassandra-tools_2.2.6-wmf3_all.deb | cassandra-tools_2.2.6-wmf3_all.deb ]]
[[ https://people.wikimedia.org/~eevans/debian/cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3_amd64.changes | cassandra_2.2.6-wmf3_amd64.changes ]]
This package addresses the test invocation of the JVM added in [[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11752 | CASSANDRA-11752 ]] which results in startup blocking when the Prometheus exporter is enabled.
The `debdiff` output against wmf2:
https://gist.github.com/eevans/af4e8e8b1893bd00e9d1accece3ff65f (full)
https://gist.github.com/eevans/75138b10f1219b9788186de672d04774 (sans generated files)