[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1038155: zfs-linux: Provide a package based on OpenZFS master branch (a.k.a. 2.1.99)

[Damiano Albani]

Package: zfs-linux
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: damiano.albani at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Ubuntu recently started using the master branch of OpenZFS (a.k.a. 2.1.99)
for ZFS packages in Mantic: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/2.1.99-0ubuntu4.

Would Debian consider such a move as well?
My understanding is that Debian tends to be more conservative(?) than Ubuntu
in that regard, so maybe have this 2.1.99 package in Debian Experimental?
(I don't know much about the whole Debian packaging rules, so I hope it makes sense.)

As you problably already know, it is *already* possible to build Debian
packages from the master branch of OpenZFS: see https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Developer%20Resources/Building%20ZFS.html.
While this package definition maintained by OpenZFS works totally fine,
it produces packages named like "openzfs-zfs-dkms", "openzfs-zfsutils", etc,
which is not compatible with Debian packages depending on "zfsutils-linux"
for example.

So is it something that you would consider?
Thanks!

Best Regards,

-- 
Damiano Albani

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