[Pkg-ofed-devel] Update OFED to latest upstream

[Talat mellanox]

Thank you for your prompt response.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at dogguy.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30/12/2015 17:17, Talat mellanox wrote:
>>
>> We would like to update the infiniband user space packages [1] in
>> debian, I saw that you are the maintainer of them. Could you please
>> assist ?
>>
>
> I've had a look at the first list. AFAIK, only the following packages
> require an update:
>
> - mstflint: 4.1.0-1.46.gb1cdaf7 from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/mstflint/
> - perftest: 3.0-0.16.gb2f2e82 from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/perftest/
> - infiniband-diags: 1.6.6 from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/
> - ibacm: ibacm-1.1.0 from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/
> - srptools: 1.0.3 from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/srptools/
> - libibverbs: 1.2.0-rc1 from https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/verbs/
>
> I intend to work on getting those packages updated in Debian. Besides, are
> you familiar with Debian packaging? And if so, would you like to get involved
> too?

Sorry i'm not familure with the Debian packaging, but there is a
"Debian New Maintainers' Guide" I will take it as a referace,
if you have another guide I will be happy if you share it with us.
I will be happy to get involved in such field and learn more about it,
I have opened "Debian New Member" account and  waiting for acceptation
"talatb-guest at users.alioth.debian.org", could you please help with
this?

>
> Is that accurate? In particular, I didn't find new upstream versions for:
> opensm, rdmacm, ibumad and ibmad.
>
I talked about the jessie version, i see that sid and stretch is up to date.

>> One more thing, there is [2] packages that was maintained by Roland, i
>> think that he is not doing any InfiniBand maintenance anymore, could
>> you please advise who can be the maintainer of them, we would like
>> that also those [2] packages to be updated.
>>
>
> Progressively, Roland's packages which are related to OFED are brought
> under the umbrella of this team team (pkg-ofed). This has been done for
> libxml4 for example and could be done, when needed, for other packages
> as well.

Thank you for your effort for taking those packages maintaining, we
are interesting to update also [2] packages, so can you please take a
maintaining of then and update them to upstream ?

>
> HTH,
>
> -- Mehdi