Hello, This e-mail is an inquiry about allowing Debian 8 to support FCoE. Debian 7 supported FCoE via the fcoe-utils package, which depends on the lldpad package. I discovered not long before the freeze these packages had been removed from unstable and jessie because the maintainer no longer had time to update them and they had a dependency on libnl which was being removed in favor of libnl-3. The dependency on libnl has since been corrected upstream. I maintain a few other Debian packages and my employer uses FCoE, so I will be maintaining these packages as part of my job. I have been added to the FCoE maintainers project in Debian and rebuilt both the lldpad and fcoe-utils packages using upstream's patches for libnl-3. Unfortunately, it took a while for the previous maintainer and I to realize he did not have time to do the upload for me. As a result, the packages were not uploaded until just before the freeze. I originally intended to wait until the packages were accepted to request an unblock but they have been waiting over a month and there has been no feedback about what is going on, so I guess I should go ahead. My question is: given Debian 7 supported FCoE and these packages are minimally modified from the Debian 7 version, would the release team consider allowing them into Debian 8 if the packages are accepted? Key points: * If you search for Linux FCoE you will easily find how to do it and how to do it is to install the fcoe-utils package, which is in most distros. For example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/bnx2fc.txt https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/fcoe-config.html * I *will* maintain Debian 8 versions of these packages for my employer, regardless of the release team's decision about allowing them into jessie. However, I would like to make it easy for other companies using FCoE to run Debian 8. * Unlike the previous maintainer, I have access to FCoE equipment. I have tested the packages and verified they work. * I have a number of improvements in mind but the versions Tony uploaded for me are as close as possible to the versions currently in wheezy. * The packages are a leaf and twig. Nothing else really interacts with fcoe-utils and although it requires lldapd specifically, there are alternative implementations of LLDP daemons available in jessie. Thank you, -Jacob
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