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

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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?

** Affects: multipath-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: architecture-ppc64le bot-comment bugnameltc-125193 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin1510
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Multipath: upgrade multipath-tools to upstream
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1455482
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