RFS: mdadm

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Thursday 08 September 2011, Tim Gokcen wrote:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mdadm".

You really want to CC the current mdadm maintainer for your NMU, done 
with this mail; 'my package "mdadm"' is a bit ambiguous in this case 
as well.

> This upload is a fix for two trivial bugs opened against the current 
> mdadm package; the Debian-exclusive 'checkarray' script is excessively 
> verbose and this can lead to unwanted nuisance cron mail.
> 
> The upstream version is considerably ahead of what is currently in 
> Debian repositories, although the Debian VCS (git) version is more up to 
> date, but the Debian maintainer is not currently able to update the 
> repository and I do not feel qualified in pulling from upstream or the 
> Debian VCS, only in fixing these two nuisance issues which have been 
> reported against the current version.
> 
> I would like to push this package into stable after it has sat in 
> unstable & testing for a suitable soak period; Debian developer Philipp 
> Kern has indicated that this would be possible in regards to Debian bug 
> 598957 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598957>, one of 
> the two problems fixed in this upload. The other fix is for Debian bug 
> 605722 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605722>, which 
> is actual a partial regression of bug 510641 
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510641>.
> 
>   * Package name    : mdadm
>     Version         : 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1.1
>     Upstream Author : Neil Brown <neilb at suse.de>
>   * URL             : http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadmmdadm/mdadm.git
>   * License         : GPL
>     Section         : admin
> 
> It builds those binary packages:
> 
> mdadm - tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
>   mdadm-udeb - tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID) (udeb)
> 
> To access further information about this package, please visit the 
> following URL:
> 
>    http://mentors.debian.net/package/mdadm
> 
> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
> 
>    dget -x 
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mdadm/mdadm_3.1.4-1+8efb9d1.1.dsc
> 
> I would be happy if someone uploaded this package for me.

Unlikely, given that your proposed NMU is FTBS when building in an 
unstable environment because of http://bugs.debian.org/625392.


[ On a very personal note, I'd like to see http://bugs.debian.org/633880
  fixed/ applied myself, while not critical for Debian's current kernel 
  versioning, the patch has been accepted upstream[1] post 3.2.2. ]

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=f161d047eed634b3380262767f955eb888502e88
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