On 28/02/14 10:30, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I'm basically Ccing half the world in this (only half sorry about that :) and I don't know who half
> of you are :), but there have been very little information on what's happening with ZoL in Debian
> GNU/Linux.
>
> Aron (and in some part Carlos) seems to have gone a-wall and the list have been VERY quiet. It seems
> like it's only Aron and me that is actually Debian GNU/Linux Developers (unless other things have
> happened outside the list that I'm not aware of - Carlos was/is a maintainer if I don't
> misremembering and Darik is in the wait queue?). And no actually status information/reason from the
> FTP maintainers about why it have been stuck in incoming for so long (accepted into incoming Sun, 07
> Jul 2013 16:00:06 - that's more than six months ago!). Have it been rejected? Is it held up for some
> reason? What can I/we do to help move it along?
>
>
> I'm now the current Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy package maintainer (and have been for quite some time)
> for/in ZoL ("upstream" from Debian GNU/Linux I suppose) and I have contributed to both the packaging
> (that is already in the Alioth repos) as well as bits and pieces to ZoL code (such as SMB and iSCSI
> support - which will be accepted into post-0.6.3 which is due out "very soon now" we hope) and also
> wrote support for ZoL to be used as installation target (debian installer, part-man) etc.
>
> With that - I have a large vested interest in maintaining this and I work on it almost daily, so if
> no one else have the time (Aron, Carlos)....
>
> I know that Darik is also very busy working on this, and he already maintain (and have for a very
> long time) the Ubuntu packages in ZoL, and much (most, all?) of the current packaging is from his
> busy hands.
>
> So I'd prefer to work with him on this (if aron/carlos don't have the time/interest that is - I'm not
> proposing to steal the packaging!).
>
>
> Since there have been next to no progress in the Debian GNU/Linux ZoL projects, I have done all my
> packaging stuff in the ZoL repos, so if/when this project is revitalized, I'll push all my work to
> the Debian GNU/Linux repos as individual commits.
>
Hi,
We are still waiting for ftp-masters. I already poked them yesterday and this was their answer:
Thu Feb 26 #debian-ftp on OFTC
[13:20] <clopez> anyone from the ftp team can quickly and gently tell me about the status of the package zfs-linux on NEW? It has been sitting there for 6 months already
[14:28] <paultag> clopez: no one has had time to properly ensure the CDDL / GPL linking mess is above the table
[14:29] <paultag> k
[14:29] <paultag> whoops
[14:29] <clopez> paultag: there is no CCDL / GPL linking: the package only ships the kernel module in source format, the kernel module binaries are built at install time with dkms
[14:29] <paultag> I understand that's the line
[14:30] <paultag> but the fact is it's transitively linking is something we have to look at
[14:30] <paultag> I know when the website copy says about it
[14:30] <clopez> sorry, what means transitively linking?
[14:31] <paultag> I need to leave for work, just because you link to a shim which links to something doesn't mean it's not all linked together.
[14:32] <clopez> paultag: I understand, but the package don't ships kernel binaries, only source code. So as long as binaries are not distributed (and the package don't distributes them) I think there is no problem
[14:32] <paultag> I understand what the website says
[14:33] <paultag> but you'll not be suprised when we take our time figuring out what the hell is going on with this one.
[14:34] <clopez> yes, I understand you need your time, only wanted to have an update regarding this because I felt it was somehow forgotten
[14:34] <clopez> thanks for the update
[14:34] <paultag> it's not forgotten, we just haven't had a slice of time to commune about it
[14:34] <paultag> feel free to email ftpmaster@ and poke
[14:37] <clopez> Liang Guo did that some weeks ago but he got not reply (AFAIK)
So, I don't know how more we can do other than wait.
Regards!
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