07.03.2014 15:11, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > For your information, some weeks ago, I rebuilt qemu 1.7.0+dfsg-2~bpo70 > against ceph.com Wheezy backport. The packages are there: > http://people.debian.org/~goneri/debian/wheezy-backports/ > > We use them in my company without any issue. So I support Matthias > suggestion. I think it's now save to re-enable this feature in sid.
The problem is not that qemu can't be used with rbd/rados. The problem is that debian ceph package is barely maintained. Just take a look at http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/ceph.html - the current version has been sitting in unstable for 64 days now, and no one bothered to take a look at the only new bug it introduced, which should be trivial to fix. It is the same situation we were at before, and it was the reason why the package has been removed from wheezy: some issues which need to be dealt with, and this state is going on forever. For example, if I'll enable cepth now in qemu for debian, qemu package will be stuck in unstable until cepth is fixed, because qemu will depend on librbd version >= 0.72 which is not in testing. But I really need to have ability to upload things much faster, to be able to fix real bugs in qemu people are hitting. I just can't afford to wait forever while debian ceph maintainer(s) -- who, as it seems, work in "fire and forget" mode, -- will perform next upload which - may be - will enable migration of qemu. Please note: the version of ceph which is currently in -testing is - almost - the same as has been removed from wheezy (just the debian release number - the last number in version string - has been updated by one). That to say: nothing has changed there since wheezy pre-release. > I can provide a patch if you want. The patch should uncomment just 2 lines in debian/control. That's not a problem at all, all the infrastructure is already here and we're just waiting for someone to actually maintain ceph in debian. I for one can't do that because I don't use cepth and don't know it, so don't understand from which side to come to it. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
