Debian is currently frozen. And in Ubuntu I am not planning to goOn 18 October 2012 10:59, Neil Wilson <neil@aldur.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17 October 2012 14:01, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org> wrote:
>> If you have the package ready, I'd be happy to review it and sponsor
>> it. If you need sponsor that is.
>
> I will need a sponsor and reviewer. I haven't done one of these for a
> while so I may be a bit rusty on the latest standards.
>
> I've packaged at https://github.com/NeilW/deb-thin-provisioning-tools
>
> I've improved the description and the only wrinkle from a standard
> autoconf package is that the MANDIR doesn't appear to be set correctly
> in the upstream configure. Hence the alteration to debian/rules.
>
> The package builds and is lintian clean. It should be pretty much ready to go.
>
> This package does cause issues with the current Debian/Ubuntu lvm2
> package which are corrected in newer versions of lvm2 upstream.
>
> e.g. http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/lvm2.git/commit/?id=f61cacad1604eaaef18389a46b07e35eb1072008
> and
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/lvm2.git/commit/?id=8db4540263f607e2113a405953000527ffd34b3c
>
> The Red Hat lvm2 package uses --with-thin-check=/usr/sbin/thin_check
> to configure the default to the correct location for the check
> executable.
>
> There are many more patches to the dm thin support code in the lvm2
> git archive. Are you planning to upgrade the Debian/Ubuntu packages to
> newly released 2.2.98?
>
ahead of Debian (unstable/experimental).
You should talk to Debian lvm2 maintainers to get lvm2 updated in
experimental if that's a pre-requisite for your package.
I didn't review your package yet.
While packaging in git is good, can you please generate a debian
source package and upload it into a dgetable location? E.g.
mentors.debian.net ? (that website also checks for common errors ahead
of sponsors).
Regards,
Dmitrijs.