Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : lustre Upstream Author : Whamcloud * URL : www.lustre.org * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : Distributed parallel, scalable, high-performance file system The Lustre file system is an open-source, parallel file system that supports many requirements of leadership class HPC simulation environments. Lustre is used in a number of science institutes (including mine), so having a Debian package would be quite handy for us. Their distribution already come with some Debian files (and they actually build Ubuntu packages), but they are not compliant to Debian Policy, and they are very outdated (source format 1, declared standards version 3.8.2), depending on tools that are not in Debian anymore (dpatch). However, for the kernel modules, it is possible to build them with dkms support. The package includes both the client and the server side. However, upstream builds the server package only for RHEL, already even just having the client packages for Debian would be a big win. Best regards Ole
