Thank you for the feedback. I’ll update my package and contact the upstream owner this weekend.
On 19 Jun 2013, at 07:57, Liang Guo <bluestonech...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Liang Guo <bluestonech...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:43 PM, <tstri...@rootcu.be> wrote: >>> Package: wnpp >>> Severity: wishlist >>> Owner: tstri...@rootcu.be >>> >>> >>> * Package name : bcache-tools >>> Version : 1.0 >>> Upstream Author : Kent Overstreet <kent.overstr...@gmail.com> >>> * URL : http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ >>> * License : GPL >>> Programming Lang: C >>> Description : These are the userspace tools required for bcache. >>> >>> Bcache is a patch for the Linux kernel to use SSDs to cache other block >>> devices. For more information, see http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org. >>> Documentation for the run time interface is included in the kernel tree, in >>> Documentantion/bcache.txt. >>> >>> Included tools: >>> >>> make-bcache >>> Formats a block device for use with bcache. A device can be formatted for >>> use >>> as a cache or as a backing device (requires yet to be implemented kernel >>> support). The most important option is for specifying the bucket size. >>> Allocation is done in terms of buckets, and cache hits are counted per >>> bucket; >>> thus a smaller bucket size will give better cache utilization, but poorer >>> write >>> performance. The bucket size is intended to be equal to the size of your >>> SSD's >>> erase blocks, which seems to be 128k-512k for most SSDs; feel free to >>> experiment. >>> >>> probe-bcache >>> Only necessary until support for the bcache superblock is included >>> in blkid; in the meantime, provides just enough functionality for a udev >>> script >>> to create the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink. The arguments it does support are >>> the >>> same as for blkid. >>> >>> bcache-super-show >>> Prints the bcache superblock of a cache device or a backing device. >>> >> Hi, >> >> Any progress on this ITP? bcache is enabled in linux-image-3.10-rc5-amd64. >> >> Thanks, >> -- >> Liang Guo >> http://bluestone.cublog.cn > Hi, > > I find you uploaded bcache-tools to mentors.d.n, it works, this is an > simple review: > > 1 linux-image-3.10-rc5-* is still in experimental, so I advice upload > to experimental > > 2 Standards-Version should be 3.9.4 > > 3 bcache is only available in linux world, so please set Architecture > to linux-any > > 4 Description is a little long, please try to make it shorter. > > 5 Please rewrite debian/copyright to compliance DEP-5[1] > > 6 upstream file don't have copyright header, you'd better ask upstream to add > a > copyright header. > > [1] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ > > > > > -- > Liang Guo > http://bluestone.cublog.cn
