On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 05:50:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > btrfs-progs (4.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > [ Nicholas D Steeves ] > > * Drop btrfs-convert (Closes: #824895, #854489) > > Except that btrfs-convert has been rewritten from scratch recentlish, and > bugs in the rewrite have been since ironed out.
I applaud your optimism ;-) > Yes, there are some caveats, but the man page discusses them at length. > > I see no point in shipping an incomplete package. Bugs like #864798 should never occur. While Debian stable/stale is filled with known bugs, crashes or potential data loss bugs should not exist. Given that btrfs-convert support was dropped for sid, and that this propagated to testing it is now possible to advocate to ftp-masters for dropping it from 4.7.3-1 in stable--which doesn't have the latest rewrite. Crashes and potential data loss bugs are a greater deficiency than missing functionality. Unless one of these bugs exists during freeze, the deficient package propagates to stable...not to mention that all of our downstreams can up end up getting stuck with buggy software. If by fall 2018 no rewrites of btrfs-convert have occurred, and if upstream is willing to support it, then I will fully support reverting my commit. That much I'm sure of, but May 2018 might be reasonable :-) Of course, it's ultimately up to Dmitri! What do you think about the idea of having a variant of btrfs-progs in experimental with any/all experimental functionality enabled? Cheers, Nicholas
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