Hello, What would the procedure be for getting Debian to adopt a similar policy with Ceph as it does with Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird?
As a user of Ceph on Debian, it's disappointing that I should basically ignore the Ceph packages in Debian because they cannot provide the same stability/reliability guarantees that upstream provides for their own (Debian-specific) apt repository. My assumption is that the Debian Release team don't fully review every diff for Firefox or Chromium since neither the Debian maintainers nor release team have the bandwidth for this. Ceph is a large and complex code base, and reliability is a cornerstone of both the codebase, and the release/update process. Upstream have very robust regression tests, and currently have Debian as a first-class supported distro. It would be great if Debian could more effectively work with them and track the upstream maintenance releases. If this is not possible then perhaps it would be better if the Ceph packages in Debian were removed entirely, otherwise their presence may lead inexperienced Debian / Ceph users to risk data loss and downtime by mistakenly using an inferior alternative to the upstream packages. I understand the reason for the default Debian maintenance release policy, but exceptions are already (rightly) made for this elsewhere. It seems to me that Ceph has the same key characteristics as the existing excepted packages. Any thoughts? Tim.
