[Bug 2073677] Re: Remove dmraid from oracular?

[Steve Langasek]

Originally I was going to make the argument that three replacements for
dmraid are not on-disk compatible, and therefore the Debian removal
rationale is disingenuous for anyone who is upgrading a system that
relies on this.

However, the fact that this has already been broken for two LTS cycles
without any Ubuntu developers noticing and having no capacity to test,
and we've effectively had only one user bug report about it, gives lie
to the idea that we can let this coast without upstream support and
without impact to our users.

So I am +1 now for removal; it's better to have a clean drop.

We should also add an ubuntu-release-upgrade quirk to block users from
upgrading to a release that will not support their disk.  Whether that
is added to the upgrader going back to upgrades to jammy, or whether we
SRU the udev fix to jammy and noble and only block upgrades to oracular
and later, I have no opinion.

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

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Remove dmraid from oracular?

Status in dmraid package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New
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  "as discussed in bugs #864423 and #1034188, dmraid is obsolete and shall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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