Multipath: upgrade multipath-tools to upstream
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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multipath-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre |
Bug Description
Ubuntu ships an older version of multipath-tools (i.e., the userspace multipath
support; kernelspace multipath support is the device-mapper's multipath target,
which is as recent as their kernel is, so not a problem).
Some test teams already hit enough issues with fixes upstream
to demonstrate that point.
Going forward, it's very interesting to ship something more recent in Ubuntu, so
to alleviate the number of bugs (likely with severity of block and ship) that we
will have to debug/understan
The point is fixing multipath-tools once - in a big step - rather than N times.
Canononical currently pull multipath from Debian, which
is multipath-tools 0.5.0, and upstream is around 144 patches/commits *ahead* of.
This is more than enough fixes/reasons to move to it, rather than stay on 0.5.0.
(upstream is basically the SLES level; as <email address hidden> drives upstream nowadays)
This is why this is being opened as feature request. I am wondering if Canonical see any objection to upgrading Ubuntu's multipath packages to a more recent version?
tags: | added: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-125193 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin1510 |
affects: | ubuntu → multipath-tools (Ubuntu) |
Changed in multipath-tools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
tags: | added: upgrade-software-version |
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