On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:31:13AM -0400, Antonio Russo wrote: > Most of the packaging complexity has already been dealt with > in my debian/git branch. I've collected the fraction needed > for 8.0-rc1 into [1] (see also [2] and [3]). > > The main remaining task, I believe, is to make sure all the > files are properly represented in debian/copyright. The > package, as it stands, appears to be completely functional > (I use it, and one person [4] is probably also using this).
Great! Thanks for you good work. > I was thinking about this too. Do we know what kernel Buster will > ship with? If 0.7.x supports it, I'd vote for that (given how gigantic > the changes are going to be for 0.8.0). I have no idea about the kernel version that Buster will ship with, but the 0.7.x version just got another vote from Aron. Personally I'm interested in helping keep a 0.8.x version in experimental for some time since I'm experimental user and I want native encryption. > > And as pointed out by Aron, mixing the source of GPL-licensed SPL and > > CDDL-licensed ZFS would be "interesting". I haven't investigated into > > this yet. > > I brought this up on the debian-legal mailing list (see [5], I cc-ed them, > but heard nothing). I don't think we're in any difficult legal grounds > here: mere aggregation of work doesn't change anything. No single file > combines GPL and CDDL code (which would presumably not be distributable), > but then again IANAL. I'll check them. :-) > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/aerusso-guest/zfs/commits/debian/pulls/8.0 > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891890 > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900862 > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908290 > [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902165