Bug#614898: closed by martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> (Re: Bug#614898: initramfs-tools: different punctuation in uuids in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf causes spurious error messages)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Phil Karn <karn at qualcomm.com> [2011.02.25.0559 +0100]:
> What threw me was that the punctuation required appears to be completely
> *non standard* outside Debian: colons every 32 bits.

It needs not be standard because it's used *inside* mdadm. Just
because the OSF standardised their concept of UUIDs does not mean
that suddenly, everyone who was using unique identifiers must
rewrite their software, especially not if it works. In 8 years of
mdadm maintenance, I have never heard of anyone making cosmetic
edits to mdadm.conf like you are describing.

I'll forward a well-tested patch upstream, but I will not engage in
this conversation for longer.

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