severity 397973 serious # 12:18 < vorlon> fjp: I would think that not being able to do a RAID install # should be considered RC these days, do you disagree? thanks On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 03:08:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Friday 12 January 2007 10:33, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Bug#397973: [powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the > > raid flag to partitions. Severity set to `serious' from `important' > > I don't agree that this issue is RC. It does not match any of the > criteria. > > 1) This issue does not actually break anything. It just makes it > impossible to make use of an optional feature (software RAID) during > installation. > > 2) The issue affects only a limited group of users as it is architecture > specific: software RAID support in partman works just fine on at least > i386, amd64, sparc and hppa. I'm not sure about other architectures, but > at least we have no reports of breakage there. > > 3) There is no regression, or at least, I do not see how there can be as > software RAID support and general partman code has not been touched at > that level during Etch development. This rather looks like an incomplete > implementation of software RAID support for this particular architecture. > As such, and since there currently (unfortunately) is no lead partman > maintainer, it is primarily the responsibility of the PowerPC community > to provide the missing bits and pieces needed to implement the support. > > So, IMO as D-I RM, this issue does not make partman-md "unsuitable for > release".
12:18 < vorlon> fjp: I would think that not being able to do a RAID install should be considered RC these days, do you disagree? What else is there to say ... > Note for future reference: this BR is possibly related to: > http://bugs.debian.org/392764 Unrelated, this was, to the best of my knowledge, a separate bug, which i investigated and fixed, and colin had already fixed for ubuntu and commented on it later on. It is unrelated to this bug. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
