Bug#897277: Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2018-05-01 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:22:34PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Ted, > > I do want to ensure that this has gone through well ahead of the > transition freeze. Batching up such changes to the last moment makes > releasing buster on time harder. Even though the chance of breaking > something is

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2018-05-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ted, Thank you for your quick reply. On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:16:40AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > I just didn't think it was worth it to do an upload just with the > priority change; my plan was to batch it with some other bug fixes in > the next e2fsprogs minor release. Is there a rea

Bug#897277: [ty...@mit.edu: Re: Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"]

2018-05-01 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
--- Begin Message --- On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:29:19AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 07:15:45PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Thus I ask Ted to drop the Essential flag now. I am attaching a patch > > that replaces Essential: yes with XB-Important: yes. > > It seems t

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2018-05-01 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:29:19AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 07:15:45PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Thus I ask Ted to drop the Essential flag now. I am attaching a patch > > that replaces Essential: yes with XB-Important: yes. > > It seems that you presently lack

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2018-05-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 decrease e2fsprogs' Priority: required Control: tags -2 - patch Control: block -2 by -1 Hi Ted, On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 07:15:45PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Thus I ask Ted to drop the Essential flag now. I am attaching a patch > that replaces Essential

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2018-04-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 08:42:16AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:34:20AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > Step 1: Essential: yes -> Important: yes You know I've picked up the work to make this happen. To that end, I inspected the archive and

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-21 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 08:42:16AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: [...] > So what I am currently thinking might be a viable first step is to > split out the translations for e2fsprogs and transition from > Essential: yes to Essential: no, since there is no controversy over > that step. We can then de

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:34:20AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Your 1) and 2) is what I initially called "step 1" and "step 2" to try > to indicate they are to separate distincts steps. > > Step 1: Essential: yes -> Important: yes > Step 2: Priority: required -> Priority: important > > >

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-21 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hi, On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 05:40:20PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: [...] > The normal Debian Docker images uses --variant=minbase. So changing > e2fsprogs from Priority: required to Priority: important **will** > change the Docker image. Ref: > > https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/contrib

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 03:08:32PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > > step 1: Switch from Essential: yes to Important: yes > > > > > > This will not be much of a change in practise. Higher level tools > > > like apt etc will still not want to uninstall the package, but > > > you can now uninst

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-20 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Theodore Ts'o, This mail dedicated to the potential confusion about Essentialness and Priority. On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:51:11PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 01:21:57PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > I would like to breath some life into this bug report. I'v

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-20 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello, On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 09:15:24PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 01:22:52AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Aug 20, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > > > By the way, I was just taking a quick look, and e2fsprogs isn't the > > > only offender in this regard. Out of a 20

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 01:22:52AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 20, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > By the way, I was just taking a quick look, and e2fsprogs isn't the > > only offender in this regard. Out of a 201 MB i386 minbase chroot, 33 > > MB, or over 16% can be found in /usr/share/local

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > By the way, I was just taking a quick look, and e2fsprogs isn't the > only offender in this regard. Out of a 201 MB i386 minbase chroot, 33 > MB, or over 16% can be found in /usr/share/locale. The next largest > hierarchies under /usr/share are /usr/share/doc,

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 01:21:57PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I would like to breath some life into this bug report. I've been > collecting information/brainstorming-ideas about minimal debian > installation (debootstrap --variant=minbase) on > https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalif

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:51:11PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > There is one thing I can very quickly and easily do to to improve the > minbase set. We can significantly reduce the size of e2fsprogs (by > more half) by simply moving all of its locale files to a new package, > e2fsprogs-l10n.

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2017-08-18 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello! I would like to breath some life into this bug report. I've been collecting information/brainstorming-ideas about minimal debian installation (debootstrap --variant=minbase) on https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalification The e2fsprogs was one of the packages that where questioned

Bug#474540: ext[23] should not be marked "essential"

2008-04-06 Thread Harald Dunkel
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.8-2 Severity: wishlist Looking at the large number of different file systems for Linux I wonder whether it would be possible to split e2fsprogs to keep the "essential" part separate from the file system specific part? I am running Debian without ext[23] filesyste