Hi, On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Finally found some time to work on the spl-dkms and zfs-linux packages. > > I started with debian helpers from Darik Horn and I ended rewriting many > things. Hope all looks ok O:-) You have a summary of the most relevant > changes on the commit message [1] > > Keep in mind that the packages are still in beta status. There are things > to fix like all the pending lintian warnings, perhaps rewriting > debian/copyright (copyright notices can be added together when they share > one or more authors, there is not need for an entry for each one) > > Also I will wait until upstream releases 0.6.0. I don't want to release > a -rc version. Also 0.6.0 would be the version where the ZPL layer will > be considered stabilized. >
Darik said zfsonlinux upstream won't release 0.6.0 but go with 0.6.1 directly, because 0.6.0-rcX is actually numbers larger than 0.6.0. Releasing to experimental is okay for wider testing, and only upload to unstable when the versions/patches are acknowledged by upstream is reasonable. > I founded that there is not possible to add two people as maintainers. > debuild will complain about malformed maintainer address. > > So I guess we need to set-up a project on Alioth to handle the team > maintenance. I'm not a DD, so I would be very grateful if some of you > that are DDs (Aron?) could set-up the Alioth project to collaborative > maintain this package and add us to it (my login-name on Alioth is > clopez-guest). > I've set up a pkg-zfsonlinux team on alioth, and you've been added to the project already. Git hosting is okay now, but please don't create repository before we've decided how to maintain it. I recommend to use git-buildpackage, but you may like other ways. > I removed from the control files lot of replaces/conflicts that didn't > make sense to me. Perhaps for Ubuntu make sense (don't know). I guess > Darik can review it and fix when needed so Ubuntu users can have a painless > upgrade from the Darik's PPA packages to this ones. As you probably know > Ubuntu "steals" the packages from Debian/sid for normal versions and from > Debian/testing for LTS versions. So I guess this packages would end on > Ubuntu's official repositories in a year or so. > Those information is better to be preserved for compatibility, it makes no sense to deliberately make other people's life harder. In the future we can use experimental to provide upstream snapshots periodically and Darik's stable PPA can just replicate it for Ubuntu releases he would like to support. > > One question that floats over my mind is related to the name of the packages > libzfs-dev libzfs1 and zfsutils. On Debian/kFreeBSD there are packages with > the same name. Is allowed to have different source packages building binary > packages with the same name when they are different architectures? If is not > allowed then I guess we will have to rename the packages. > It is possible when there isn't architecture collision, but we need to come into an agreement with kBSD people (and maybe ftp-masters) before actually doing so. > > The repositories with the packages are here: > > https://github.com/clopez/zfs-linux > https://github.com/clopez/spl-dkms > > I'll have a look on them later, and I think it's better to host such repositories on Debian's infrastructure after we've decided how to use it. > Just in case someone want to test it, I have uploaded all packages built > for AMD64 as also the source packages to here: > > > http://ftp.neutrino.es/zfs-linux/ > > > To test it, at least the packages zfs-dkms and zfsutils should be > installed (with all the required dependencies). > > I will be on holidays next week. So looking forward to see your replies > when I come back. > > > Keep in mind that the packages are still a work-in-progress. > > Patches/pull-requests/suggestions are welcome :) > > > > Best regards! > ------------- > > > [1] > https://github.com/clopez/spl-dkms/commit/a88b5bf72fe8f11f7dbd0ebe17ba7b46e00a4e6f > https://github.com/clopez/zfs-linux/commit/8f3e1ef9a2dfbff9594e5d823e0d18121efba688 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
