<div dir="ltr">I <b>really</b> don't think we should be pushing RC versions of ZFS (or any other project) to the mainline Debian distributions. Using a kernel from "unstable" has always been risky, and in this case one of the risks is that ZFS will not work.<div><br></div><div>Maintainer bandwidth is a limited resource, and I would vastly prefer that time be spent on ensuring the stability and reliability of the "stable" release, with the second priority being a reasonable set of updates being available in "backports".</div><div><br></div><div>Zhou and the gang do a great job in keeping things up to date; I wouldn't view it as their responsibility to deal with breakages in unstable, unless there's some other compelling reason.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal preference, assuming maintainer time is available, would be to continue to offer 2.1.X in stable, and 2.2.X in backports when 2.2.0 is released (as opposed to being RC).</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Colm</div><div><br></div></blockquote></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 12:09, Peter Samuelson <<a href="mailto:peters@p12n.org">peters@p12n.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
[M. Zhou]<br>
> I'd personally not prefer to upload zfs-X.Y.99 anytime in the future.<br>
> Since debian is volunteer-based, we don't seem to have more bandwidth<br>
> than Ubuntu for dealing with regressions and serious bugs in a<br>
> snapshot version.<br>
<br>
That's fair - but now that Linux 6.4 is in unstable, zfs-dkms is no<br>
longer supported and will not build. For that reason, could you update<br>
to 2.2.0-rc3?<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:x-small">Colm Buckley | </span><a href="mailto:colm@tuatha.org" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank">colm@tuatha.org</a><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>