On Sun, 07 Oct 2018, Chris Dos wrote:

> On 6/28/18 6:28 AM, Chris Dos wrote:
> > A few things have changed recently. Debian has added a lsb_release dependency
> > in their 0.7.9-2 dkms package that specifically looks for Debian. So these
> > packages will no longer work on Devuan.
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900089
> >
> > It looks like some work has already been applied to providing the debian
> > folder on github:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891890
> >
> > It just seems like a good time to get into this again and perhaps have Devuan
> > ZoL packages directly.
> >
> > I have my test VMs so I'm more then happy to test anything I can. But I just
> > don't have the knowledge to be an official package maintainer. I'm not sure
> > if anyone has time to get involved in this and start interfacing with the
> > current development that is taking place to ensure Devuan will have a working
> > solution.
>
> I wanted to touch base again on this. I'm now having Devuan users contact me
> regarding zfs not working on testing and are asking me how to get it working.

thanks. I'm actually a user being affected.

> I know the Devuan Devs are hesitant to fork the ZFS packages since none of the
> Devs are using it. However, the current packages are broken and do not work
> on Devuan.

Actually I wish we fix them ASAP.

>
> I run ZFS on quite a few systems and I have three zfs test VMs that I created.
> I'm more then happy to test the forked packages before they are released to
> the apt repository.
>
> Bugs in question:
> https://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826994
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900089

Katolaz: Can we please promote Chris packages to beowulf-proposed?

ciao