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Bug#774206: release.debian.org: broken/buggy linux-target stack in Jessie



On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 06:22:31PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On 12/30/2014 04:53 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> >> > I would like to see the current builds in experimental, be pushed for Jessie. But given the freeze, I want opinion here first.
> > This isn't enough information for any of us to give you an opinion; please
> > send source debdiffs. It's probably wise to include some explanation of the
> > changes, since your changelogs are mostly "new upstream release".
> 
> 
> That is the core of the problem. LIO is a fairly new stack. The kernel
> component was merged, IIRC, around 2 yrs ago.
> 
> For the management stack, the startup organization behind it has been
> going rounds. THey have shuffled through licensing, and then Red Hat
> forked LIO Management tools. I guess all this has led to slow
> development in the past.
> 
> 
> Recently, me and Jerome (upstream LIO maintainer) met. Based on our
> conversation, I uploaded a revised snapshot of LIO. But it had to go
> into experimental because of the freeze.
> 
> 
> As requested, I've attached the debdiff for all the conponenets of LIO,
> i.e. configshell, rtslib and targetcli.
> 
> 
> I know this request is not in line with freeze policy. But we already
> have an RC bug against targetcli. So, if we cannot accommodate this
> exception, I'd rather prefer to see LIO removed for Jessie.

Well, your diff for configshell does nothing, so that's a no. Does the new
targetcli package actually fix the RC bug or not? It's not closed in the
changelog.

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