[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#909153: [src:zfs-linux]

[Mo Zhou]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:31:13AM -0400, Antonio Russo wrote:
> Most of the packaging complexity has already been dealt with
> in my debian/git branch. I've collected the fraction needed
> for 8.0-rc1 into [1] (see also [2] and [3]).
> 
> The main remaining task, I believe, is to make sure all the
> files are properly represented in debian/copyright. The
> package, as it stands, appears to be completely functional
> (I use it, and one person [4] is probably also using this).

Great! Thanks for you good work.
 
> I was thinking about this too. Do we know what kernel Buster will
> ship with? If 0.7.x supports it, I'd vote for that (given how gigantic
> the changes are going to be for 0.8.0).
 
I have no idea about the kernel version that Buster will ship with,
but the 0.7.x version just got another vote from Aron.

Personally I'm interested in helping keep a 0.8.x version in
experimental for some time since I'm experimental user and
I want native encryption.

> > And as pointed out by Aron, mixing the source of GPL-licensed SPL and
> > CDDL-licensed ZFS would be "interesting". I haven't investigated into
> > this yet.
> 
> I brought this up on the debian-legal mailing list (see [5], I cc-ed them,
> but heard nothing). I don't think we're in any difficult legal grounds
> here: mere aggregation of work doesn't change anything. No single file
> combines GPL and CDDL code (which would presumably not be distributable),
> but then again IANAL.

I'll check them. :-)

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/aerusso-guest/zfs/commits/debian/pulls/8.0
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891890
> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900862
> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908290
> [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902165