M. Zhou

@happyaron @zhsj

I have uploaded `mle_1.5.0-1_source.changes` to debian unstable.

Ubuntu ZFS package is pulled from Debian with slight modification. I'm continuously synchronizing Ubuntu modifications back to Debian package. But in fact most of the changes made by Ubuntu are...

I currently have several concerns regarding this: (1) is it possible to not place the `debian` directory in root directory? That conflicts with our workflow and will force us to...

Another debian package contributor is also around: @nabijaczleweli

(1): True. But as said by more than one person that, once `debian` is imported to the root of upstream source, we (debian) are forced to modify the upstream (openzfs)...

(2) I can't agree with this as a good engineering practice. Assume Debian's packaging commit A has a bug. This snapshot is also imported to openzfs upstream. Is this bug...

> We do agree that this is not a good approach. Moving `debian` to `contrib` and rename the packages to `openzfs-*` can help clarify that this is not expected to...

Let me add my disclaimer here: As an active downstream Debian ZFS package maintainer, I will not keep track of the status and bugs of this copy of imported debian...

Another detail -- the debian packaging is licensed under GPL-2+ due to historical reasons: https://salsa.debian.org/zfsonlinux-team/zfs/-/blob/master/debian/copyright#L194-204 -- please be aware.