[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Sync Debian and Ubuntu packages?

[Richard Laager]

On 04/21/2016 04:00 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Richard Laager]
>> Ubuntu is currently frozen for a release next week. So nothing much is
>> going to happen there immediately. But once the release is done, work
>> will start on the next release, and that'd be a good time to get this
>> done.
>
> Right.  What is your role in this?

I'm not an Ubuntu developer, if that's what you're asking. I am someone 
that has submitted patches to the Ubuntu packaging.

> Btw, what is the source repo for the Ubuntu packages?

I don't know that it is version controlled (unfortunately).

In general, remember that the Ubuntu packages descend from the ZoL PPA, 
which was maintained by Darik Horn. The ZoL Debian packages are 
maintained by Turbo Fredriksson.

I don't know how much, if any, history those packages share. These are 
all factors in why there is so much divergence. I suspect this will 
actually get better if/when ZoL is accepted into Debian. Since Ubuntu 
regularly syncs from Debian, there is an incentive to lower the size of 
the delta.

-- 
Richard