Hi Adrian On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 at 20:34 Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > first of all thanks for your past work on Ceph. > > The current status of the Ceph packages [1] does not look good. > > src:ceph has 3 RC bugs, from "maintainer address bounces" > to "crashes since the latest NMU". > I'll sort through those (see below). If you still intend to maintain Ceph, do the emails from the BTS > actually reach you? If not, a list at Alioth might be a better option. > It would also be OK if you would state that there is noone left active > among the Ceph Maintainers, and that I can orphan the package for > finding new maintainers. > I'd like to continue maintaining Ceph in Debian; my time can be a little sporadic as it is with a number of maintainers, so doing this by myself is not a sustainable option so maybe a request for help is more appropriate now than full orphaning. I fully intent to work on pushing the work I've done for Ubuntu on Ceph Jewel packaging back into Debian at the start of November, but I really do need help for testing of this. > > Regarding ceph-dkms, this is only in experimental and has an RC bug > that it doesn't work with the jessie kernel. > Is there anything left that is not in the upstream kernel? > Not really - I think we should just drop that package. Note that we really do have a problem with upgrades in Debian - going directly from firefly to jewel is an offline upgrade (at best). But maybe that is better than the currently upstream unsupported version we have in testing. Cheers James
