[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#871619: Packaging

[Fabian Grünbichler]

> Aron Xu <aron at debian.org> hat am 6. Oktober 2017 um 18:19 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > [Antonio Russo]
> >> How can I help out the packaging team on this? Who should I email?
> >
> > The best way to help is to continue contributing and participating on
> > the team mailing list and IRC channel.
> >
> > Aron Xu has been most active with maintenance, and I hope he can comment
> > on how you best can contribute.  I am not competent do to so. :)
> >
> > Any project admin on
> > <URL: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-zfsonlinux/ > can grant
> > access, ie Aron, Liang and Carlos.
> >
> > CC to Aron, and email to the bts also go to the project mailing list.
> >
> 
> I've started to update the package to 0.7.2 release and it appears
> there are some build system changes that installs quite some files
> into non-FHS compliant paths, and possibly a new package (could be
> "zfs-tests") is needed. If you are eager to help, please start from
> these changes and my latest work is available on alioth git.
> 
> Regards,
> Aron
> 

did you see my WIP branch on github, linked earlier here (and also separately on pkg-zfsonlinux-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org)[1,2]? I already did most of the work (including splitting out zfs-test) except for updating debian/copyright.. note that I merged the actual upstream tags and not the upstream release tar balls, so you probably only want to take a closer look at commits touching debian/ ;) I have been running this branch (recently with the addition of upstream PR#6616[3]) for quite some time on my personal machines (Sid and Stretch), and have been testing a variant of it with a 4.13 kernel at work as well - all without any problems so far (except for the send/receive incompatibility with 0.6.5, for which I made the PR ;))

the only other point up for discussion besides splitting out zfs-test was whether the zfs and zpool binaries should move to /bin instead of /sbin, as they are now usable by unprivileged users for certain read-only operations..

I would be glad to assist in any future work here, both for the 0.7.2 release as well as further packaging (I am responsible for most of the downstream ZFS packaging in Proxmox VE, which is based on Debian - so I am familiar with both ZoL and Debian packaging ;)).

if you have any questions about my branch or want to discuss stuff, just drop me an e-mail (here, on-list or directly) or catch me on IRC (f_g on OFTC and freenode)

1: https://github.com/Fabian-Gruenbichler/zfs/commits/debian/wip-0.7
2: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-zfsonlinux-devel/2017-August/001196.html
3: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/6616