Comment 22 for bug 603582

I would say mdadm is rather more important than many other packages as it is a core component for anyone wanting to use software raid, and as something that is part tool part kernel driver, having it mismatched can cause problems. Certainly more important than moving the window icons :) Reading the ubuntu server page you would not think that something like this would be so out of date. I've had to maintain my own package for ubuntu for more than a year now :( (and has got to the point where I am switching machines back to debian, as I think the server edition is not what it claims to be)