biosdevname package in Universe is severely downlevel

[Jeffrey Lane]

Hi.  I've been in touch with Mellanox who had filed this bug [1]
against the biosdevname[2] package in Universe.  Somehow, this package
ended up in Universe, with someone named Rudy Gevaert
<Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be> listed as the Original Maintainer and Ubuntu
Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com> as the package
maintainer.

This package is SORELY out of date and has not been updated since the
4.0-1 version was introduced in Ubuntu.  There have been several
updates since then as shown at the Dell host site[3] while the Ubuntu
package has languished.  The net effect of this is that this package
in Ubuntu is broken on pretty much all modern mellanox NICs (CX4,
CX5).

What can we do to get this updated in Eoan and then backported into Bionic?

Cheers
Jeff

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/biosdevname/+bug/1535045
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=biosdevname&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
[3] http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/
-- 
Jeff Lane
Technical Partnership and Server Certification Programmes

"Entropy isn't what it used to be."