[Bug 968074] Please test proposed package

[Steve Langasek]

Hello Tuomas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mdadm into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from
verification-needed to verification-done.  If it does not, change the
tag to verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing
will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

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Title:
  Partitionable raid ignored by 65-mdadm-blkid.rules

Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “mdadm” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “mdadm” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [IMPACT]

   * Partitionable raid1 arrays following the /dev/md_d[0-9]* naming
  convention were ignored by the default udev settings.

   * Thus it prevents booting, if rootfs is on the partitioned RAID
  array, since that would never be assembled by udev rules

   * This is fixed by switching from dated Ubuntu udev rules, to the now
  shipped in the upstream udev rules

  [TESTCASE]

   * Add partitioned RAID1 to the system
   * Notice that it doesn't get assembled
   * Upgrade the package
   * Re-add partitioned RAID1 to the system
   * Notice that it does get assembled

  [Regression Potential]

   * The default udev rule has changed. Users who relied on the
  previous, incomplete/broken, behaviour may be pleasantly surprised or
  annoyed that  by-hand assembly of partitioned RAID arrays is not
  longer required.

   * System administrators need to check their /etc/udev/rules.d/ to
  make sure that (a) they do not override mdadm rules (b) if they do,
  check that those overrides are still needed (c) that the override is
  named to match the new udev rule name.

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