[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1063457: zfsutils-linux has conflict file ‘arcstat’ with nordugrid-arc-client

[Mattias Ellert]

lör 2025-08-30 klockan 14:48 +0100 skrev Colm Buckley:
> The upstream discussion at
> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/16357
> is proving productive; it is highly likely that we will be able
> to resolve the conflict in an upcoming OpenZFS release by renaming
> /usr/bin/arcstat to /usr/bin/zarcstat. The timeline is still being
> discussed, but should be complete well before forky starts to settle.
> 
>        Colm

Beware! The bug's severity is "serious", i.e. it is considered release
critical, and not fixing the bug is a valid cause for removal of the
packages. The packages are currently scheduled for auto-removal with a
scheduled removal date of 2025-09-28 and 2025-10-01 respectively.

So the required timescale for fixing this is not "before forky starts
to settle" i.e. "sometime on 2027", but rather "within the next 10-12
days", so that the fixed version migrates to testing before the first
auto-removal date.

The issue is half-fixed upstream in zfs, adding a symlink with a new
name to the old script name as a transitional state, preparing for
renaming the script. But it looks like the complete rename need to be
done earlier downstream in Debian to avoid triggering auto-removal,
since from my prospective as on outsider it seems unlikely that
upstream will release a version with the complete fix within the next
10-12 days.

	Mattias
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