Please backport cciss-vol-status 1.06-1 from maverick to lucid

[Jordan Yelloz]

Binary package hint: cciss-vol-status

The version distributed with Ubuntu 10.04 is 1.0.3 but 1.0.6 has been released and it supports the RAID controllers on newer systems.
Debian unstable has packaged the latest version, too.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/cciss-vol-status

[Chris Hofstaedtler (zeha)]

Subscribing ubuntu-sponsors to this, maybe cciss-vol-status 1.06-1 (from Debian stable main) or 1.09-1 (from Debian sid main) can be synced to at least 10.04.

There are no Ubuntu changes.
The main gain of this sync would be additional hardware support, for hardware available since late 2009.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

First of all, please note that Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 are no longer supported, so we no longer make any changes to those releases.

As for 10.04, with a handful exceptions (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates), we don't update software in stable releases, and we almost never do large version upgrades like this.

However, we do have the backports process (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports), which is intended for incorporating newer versions of software that might add desirable features. The requirements for backporting are simple - we simply need to verify that the package in question will successfully build, install, and run on the release to which it's being backported, and I can help with that.

I'm going to convert this bug into a backports bug for Lucid. Please indicate whether you want 1.06-1 or 1.09-1 backported. If you want to backport 1.09-1, we'll run into two issues:

First, the backports process only allows for backporting packages which are already in some version of Ubuntu, so we would have to wait until 1.09-1 is synced from Debian to Ubuntu Oneiric (which should only take a few days)

Second, in order to make sure that release upgrades work correctly with backports turned on, if we backport 1.09-1, we will also need to backport it to maverick and natty. Those releases will also have to be tested, not just Lucid, so depending on the resources you have to test, that may be prohibitive.

Given those caveats, please indicate which version of cciss-vol-status you would like backported, and we can move forward.

[Chris Hofstaedtler (zeha)]

So, I'd suggest going for 1.06-1. This makes the most sense, as it will improve hardware support, and 1.09-1 would also improve compatibility with the hpsa driver, but it's probably not even available in the 10.04 kernel.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

Cool. I've uploaded a test backport of 1.06-1 from maverick to lucid to my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~broder/+archive/backports-tests)

Please verify that the package successfully builds, and that the resulting packages install and run on lucid. Once you've done that, please mark the status of the bug as confirmed and I can approve the backport.

[Chris Hofstaedtler (zeha)]

Your backport appears to work properly in a lucid chroot.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

Excellent. In that case, ACK from backporters.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I: Extracting cciss-vol-status_1.06-1.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of cciss-vol-status as 1.06-1~lucid1 ... done.