Re: unblocking partman-multipath
Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> writes:
> Hi Otavio,
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:03:39AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> writes:
>>
>> > * Otavio Salvador [Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:28:24 -0300]:
>> >
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> > please unblock partman-multipath. There's no version in lenny yet. This
>> >> > way folks building custom installers (due to #440675) can pull from
>> >> > lenny instead of sid.
>> >
>> >> Hello Guido,
>> >
>> >> Let's see if we can (I and you) produce a patch Parted's 1.8 branch
>> >> using the fixes we made for 1.9.
>> >
>> >> I won't upload 1.9 for Debian now and if we do it fast, after Parted
>> >> migrates to lenny, we might test it and try to get an
>> >> exception. However until that is done, I wouldn't like to have unused
>> >> udebs on lenny.
>> >
>> > Honest question: why? Does it have any negative impact?
>>
>> Well, if it is not useful for the user why put it in lenny? If someone
>> needs to make a custom image with a compiled parted, he can grab that
>> udeb and put together. I see no gains in have it on lenny.
> I disagree here. The partman-multipath udeb works with lenny. Once we
> make a new upload to unstable it will be "gone" and must be extracted
> from SVN. We're giving people trying to run Debian on HA workloads a
> hard time already by not caring much. We could try to ease these things
> at least.
Let's make a deal. Let's see how parted patch goes and we revisit it
later if we decide to not go foward with parted patching for
lenny. Can be?
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