Comment 5 for bug 1685528

> On Apr 24, 2017, at 15:09, Petter Reinholdtsen <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> [Richard Laager]
>> I will take a look.
>
> If you are not already aware of it, it is useful to know about the
> summary page and related links,
> <URL: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org >.
>
>> I have been subscribed to the mailing list for some time. I have joined
>> the IRC room now.
>
> Welcome. :)
>
>> Are you saying it was discussed in one of these places?
>
> At least I am happy with the amount of information flowing in these
> channels. All commits are automatically send to the list, for those
> with time and interest to review, and all bug reports and discussions
> are sent there too. But most important, everyone in the group seem to
> welcome contributions from interested and skilled people. The team is
> short on man-power, as is most teams of course, but everyone is doing as
> good as we can.
>
> My main problem is personal, I lack the required spare time to
> contribute technically, and so far has mostly helped by guiding the
> package through the NEW queue and commiting a few translations. :)
>
>> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/zfs was significantly changed in
>> Zesty from what it is in Xenial:
>> 1 file changed, 936 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
>
> Aha. I misunderstood what to look for in git. I do not know anything
> about that file, unfortunately. :)
>

I guess the change was led by the Debian sync, for zesty the packages are synced and derived from the Debian one, while previous packages aren't.

I don't think there's extensive use of those Debian packages for ZFS as rootfs at the moment, while other common cases were tested to be working. So if there's trouble led by those packages let's work on it...

Regards,
Aron