[Bug 2073677] Re: Remove from oracular?

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

While I agree with Mitchell that some still users use it, it might be
time to force reconsidering to something that is well maintained. If
upstream is dead but we are continuing we help to set users up for
failure in the long run.

Furthermore now being removed in Debian will put even more burden on
just Ubuntu and I'd not know someone easily able to say "yeah I can
spend all the time needed for this".

And gladly in this case there are alternatives:
- mdadm based solutions can behave quite similar
- Raid via filesystem features like in zfs
- ... probably more I didn't check

And 24.10 is "only" the first -dev release towards 26.04. It is just the
right time to do such changes IMHO. I'd be in favor of removing it

The alternative is to keep it as-is for 24.10 but remove it very early
in 25.04 allowing us all the development time of 25.04 to detect if that
was a really bad idea.

But being well after Feature Freeze that will also need release team
approval - I'll reach out.

If we agree and remove it, we'd want to add something like [1] to the
Oracular (or if we do it in 25.04 there) release notes.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=1021490;filename=dmraid.diff;msg=10

** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Remove dmraid from oracular?

Status in dmraid package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in dmraid package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  https://bugs.debian.org/1056944

  From Debian bug:
  RoQA; obsolete; dead upstream
  "as discussed in bugs #864423 and #1034188, dmraid is obsolete and shall
  not be shipped in trixie.
  "

  the delta for Ubuntu was related to kpartx-boot, now removed from multipath-tools
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/0.9.9-1ubuntu1

  I uploaded a dmraid without that delta to ease removal of NBS kpartx-
  boot

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