Re: Bug#598957: NMU of mdadm for squeeze-proposed-upates
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:36:08PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
> ----- Original message -----
> > also sprach Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> [2011.05.03.2004 +0200]:
> > > I don't think that's worth a stable update on its own.
> >
> > It's apparently an inconvenience to our users, and fixable with
> > a trivial patch. Are there arguments against it going into the next
> > r-release?
>
> Let's say you have 500 servers, then you get 500
> useless warning emails for no valid reasons. Yes,
> that's quite annoying, and I do believe worth an
> update for large installations. Patching by had is
> even more a
>
> What's your argument against the update if not
> Julien the worthyness, which I believe is a mater
> of opinion depending on the number of server one
> has to do admin on?
+1 for this patch to be applied in stable. Apart from the inconvenience
of being emailed by all your Debian systems using mdadm once a month,
sending people an email about a normal situation is likely to mean that
people miss the occasion when something isn't normal.
Dominic.
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