[Bug 1455482] Re: Multipath: upgrade multipath-tools to upstream

[Steve Langasek]

Tracking an upstream trunk that has not been QAed for a release is not
necessarily something we want to do.  Do you know if upstream has
another release planned?

Are the issues that are being encountered in testing present with
multipath-tools 0.5.0?  Debian has 0.5.0 but Ubuntu is still at 0.4.9.
We would want to update to the latest release this cycle - but not
necessarily pull unreleased trunk.

** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)

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Title:
  Multipath: upgrade multipath-tools to upstream

Status in multipath-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu ships an older version of multipath-tools (i.e., the userspace multipath
  support; kernelspace multipath support is the device-mapper's multipath target, 
  which is as recent as their kernel is, so not a problem).

  Some test teams  already hit enough issues with fixes upstream
  to demonstrate that point.

  Going forward, it's very interesting to ship something more recent in Ubuntu, so
  to alleviate the number of bugs (likely with severity of block and ship) that we
  will have to debug/understand/interlock/backport/submit/upload to get fixed...

  The point is fixing multipath-tools once - in a big step - rather than
  N times.

  Canononical currently  pull multipath from Debian, which
  is multipath-tools 0.5.0, and upstream is around 144 patches/commits *ahead* of.
  This is more than enough fixes/reasons to move to it, rather than stay on 0.5.0.
  (upstream is basically the SLES level; as hare at suse.de drives upstream nowadays)

  This is why this is being opened as feature request.  I am wondering
  if Canonical see any objection to upgrading Ubuntu's multipath
  packages to a more recent version?

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