I made a merge request to ingest 2.1.8:
https://salsa.debian.org/linux-blocks-team/open-iscsi/-/merge_requests/12
I obviously don't have permissions to push a pristine tar of 2.1.8 so it
likely won't build in any Salsa pipelines. I did build it locally on my
Debian 11 box with a clean git checkout.
As I mentioned in the merge request, I don't have a preference on
whether my merge request is accepted or another is made by the package
maintainers.
Hoping to submit some patches in the near future to the Debian package
that rely on code added in 2.1.8