Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 25/06/12 02:14, Phillip Susi wrote: Generally, Debian packages stable releases of software. At the current state is this package ready for unstable or better suited for experimental? Has it seen wider testing / user base? (e.g. did you post an announce to ext-dev mailing lists? LWN.net?

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-25 Thread Phillip Susi
On 6/25/2012 4:25 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Your decision whether you upload into Debian experimental or unstable should not be affected by other derivative distribution policies. You can request syncing packages from experimental into Ubuntu, but the package will still land in Ubuntu's new

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 25/06/12 14:34, Phillip Susi wrote: On 6/25/2012 4:25 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Your decision whether you upload into Debian experimental or unstable should not be affected by other derivative distribution policies. You can request syncing packages from experimental into Ubuntu, but the

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 05:03:39PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package e2defrag. This package used to be known as defrag, and was removed from the archive back in 2008 due to being abandoned by its authors and rotting for many years. I have taken over

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2012 12:00 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: Have you taken over upstream maintainership as well? Yes. This was always a tool which needed to be used with great caution, and was removed for good reason. Is this safe to use with all ext2, ext3 and

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Eugene Paskevich
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:13:15 +0300, Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com wrote: Could you provide more details? Also an e2image of the fs ( preferably before defrag ) would be helpful in debugging. I wasn't very cautious to preserve any data before or after the defrag, even more I've killed the

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Eugene Paskevich
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:00:10 +0300, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: This was always a tool which needed to be used with great caution, and was removed for good reason. Is this safe to use with all ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems? Just my 2 cents... Tried to use it on my

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2012 05:25 PM, Eugene Paskevich wrote: I wasn't very cautious to preserve any data before or after the defrag, even more I've killed the file system already. Sorry, I won't be useful in debugging. How about at least an overview of the

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2012 04:36 PM, Eugene Paskevich wrote: Just my 2 cents... Tried to use it on my non-critical ext3 FS. The FS structure was corrupted, fsck recovered some data (about 1%) into lost+found, 80% of data is lost w/o any trace. Well, it's up

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Eugene Paskevich
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:48:37 +0300, Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com wrote: How about at least an overview of the complaints that e2fsck had? And I It's output went off the scroll buffer, sorry. But it was quite a long list. assume that e2defrag finished without error? Yes, at least I

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Nicholas Breen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:00 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: This was always a tool which needed to be used with great caution, and was removed for good reason. Is this safe to use with all ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems? Obviously there may

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Dear Phillip, Thank you for replying to all the comments and resolving issues quickly. I haven't checked them yet, but I am sure they are fine now. See further comments: On 24/06/12 03:50, Phillip Susi wrote: Bugs there were closed due to removing the package from the archive should be

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24/06/12 23:58, Nicholas Breen wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:00 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: This was always a tool which needed to be used with great caution, and was removed for good reason. Is this safe to use with all ext2, ext3 and

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2012 07:40 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Let me rephrase. Is upstream aware of the above bugs which affected the last version of defrag in debian, which were not fixed in the upstream code? They appear to fall into 3 categories: ftbs,

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2012 07:41 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: There is already an ext4-specific (depends on creation with -O extent) e4defrag tool in e2fsprogs since 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1. Is there a reason you would use one tool over the other? The

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-23 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package e2defrag. This package used to be known as defrag, and was removed from the archive back in 2008 due to being abandoned by its authors and

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Hello Phillip, Thanks for picking up this package. Here are some comments == ITP == The ITP was not sent to the debian-devel mailing list. Please use report-bug in the future or add pseudo-header: X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Please forward your ITP to debian-devel. == bugs ==

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-23 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/2012 07:27 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: The ITP was not sent to the debian-devel mailing list. Please use report-bug in the future or add pseudo-header: X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Please forward your ITP to debian-devel.