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

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 12:19:35AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> 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

I would also suggest cherry-picking/backporting the following two
upstream PRs on top of 0.7.2:

#6616: send/recv compatibility with 0.6.5.x [1]
#6695: receive_freeobjects() skips freeing some objects [2]

the first (DISCLAIMER: written by me :P) fixes an incompatibility
between zfs send on 0.7 and zfs recv on 0.6.5 which would otherwise lead
to lots of never-terminating, 100% cpu usage zfs recv threads on
not-yet-upgraded replication/backup targets.

the second fixes a potential inconsistency when receiving incremental
streams, which would cause subsequent receives to fail.

both are slated for inclusion in 0.7.3 ([3]).

1: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/6616
2: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/6695
3: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/projects/12