[pve-devel] [PATCH zfsonlinux 08/15] zfs/control: add spl as transitional dummy package

[Stoiko Ivanov]

since splat has been removed from zfs (during the repository merge of zfs and
spl, the userspace spl package does not contain any files (apart from metafiles)

keep the package as metapackage, s.t. the old splat manpage and binary gets
removed upon upgrade.

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
 zfs/debian/control | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/zfs/debian/control b/zfs/debian/control
index c2a8191..ab5ceef 100644
--- a/zfs/debian/control
+++ b/zfs/debian/control
@@ -182,3 +182,22 @@ Description: Debugging symbols for OpenZFS userland libraries and tools
  .
  This package contains the debugging symbols for libzpool2linux, libzfs2linux,
  libnvpair1linux, libuutil1linux, zfs-zed and zfsutils-linux.
+
+Package: spl
+Section: contrib/metapackages
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends},
+Suggests: zfs-test
+Description: Solaris Porting Layer user-space utilities for Linux (dummy)
+ The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
+ many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to
+ run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
+ modification. The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel
+ module which provides a testing harness for the SPL module.
+ .
+ SPL can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos
+ (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don't want the
+ overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives
+ to Linux primitives.
+ .
+ This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.
-- 
2.11.0