On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:16 AM Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Steve, Colin:
>
> keep in mind that this version also introduces some new restrictions, e.g. 
> rpi-sdimg IMAGE_FSTYPE in meta-raspberrypi is now failing with:
>
> mkfs.vfat: Label can be no longer than 11 characters
>
> not sure how common this will be in other BSPs, but people might be surprised 
> with such failures in LTS (like they were from the need to update 
> oe-core/dunfell checkout to get python3targetconfig.bbclass recently when 
> other layers started to require it).

thanks for this info Martin, 4.1 was released in 2017, so 4.2 is not a
bugfix only release by any means. It should be out of policy for LTS
backport. since we have different tools and techniques to partition
storage media
this tool plays a vital role and we should be very careful making
changes to it, especially in releases.

>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:43 PM Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 14:26, Colin Finck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar  1, 2021 at 05:58 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>>> > Can you send a followup patch please, on top of master-next?
>>>
>>> Here we go: 
>>> https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/patch_dosfstools_build/81024606
>>>
>>> Who decides about backporting or not backporting dosfstools 4.2 to Dunfell?
>>> I can only stress again that a large number of devices in the wild are 
>>> currently running on FAT boot partitions, and come with a dosfschk version 
>>> that likes to destroy these boot partitions.
>>
>>
>> That would be Steve. It's best if you cherry-pick the needed patches into 
>> current dunfell tip, and send them here with [dunfell] prefix, adding the 
>> rationale to the commit messages.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
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> 
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