[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#687925: diff for NMU version 1.4.20.2-10.1

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Arne / Ross,

This debian bug, 687925, is release critical for the OpenStack suite.
OpenStack uses iscsitarget as its storage sub-module.

As is explained in this bug report, the ietd daemon does not seem to be
releasing the sparse files that it exposes to the initiator, even after
the initiator has logged out the sessions.

This fix, in revision 478, is not part of the stable 1.4.20 branch.

Debian is in freeze now, and the iscsitarget version that will ship with
Wheezy is the 1.4.20.2 stable branch.

Is it safe to pick this one fix against the stable branch?


Thanks,
Ritesh


On Monday 17 September 2012 11:48 PM, Loic Dachary wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 07:41 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> On Monday 17 September 2012 10:28 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>>> On Monday 17 September 2012 08:41 PM, Loic Dachary wrote:
>>>>> The proposed NMU was based on the assumption that it would be easier to fix the release critical bug first and 
>>>>> then advocate for other changes:
>>>>>
>>> Agreed. Just that the other bug, that the one in experimental fixes, is
>>> related to a kernel panic. It is still a minor bug though.
>>>
>> I also would have preferred to see this fix in the 1.4.20 stable branch
>> upstream. When I pulled in the bits yesterday, this fix was not in the
>> stable branch. Have you asked this upstream?
>>
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not familiar with the iscsitarget upstream. The patch comes from this upstream revision
> 
> http://iscsitarget.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/iscsitarget?revision=478&view=revision
> 
> and the rationale for applying it is described in detail in
> 
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/967984
> 
> Does that answer your question ?
> 
> Cheers
> 


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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