On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:35:45AM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > What are you plans wrt to util-linux-ng in Debian? Do you still want > e2fsprogs to supply libblkid and libuuid there, or do you intend to > depend on those from util-linux.
Apparently the latest versions of hal and udev need the util-linux-ng version of these libraries, until we do the transition Debian can't update to newer versions of those packages. So the only question is the transition. > Last time I spoke to Lamont, he was waiting for you - sounds like you > deadlocked on each other :-) What I had suggested to Lamont (via an intermediary) was documented here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528830 I had since contacted Lamont via IRC a couple of days ago, and he said he was going to get to it "that evening". I didn't hear back from him, so I suspect he's found it to be a lot more complicated, since the number of packages that need to transition over from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng are somewhat large: libblkid1, libblkid1-dbg, libblkid1-udeb, libblkid-dev, libuuid1, libuuid1-dbg, libuuid1-udeb, uuid-dev, uuid-runtime, uuid-runtime-dbg In addition, he would need to make sure util-linux-ng is sane with respect to changes from util-linux, and how to package all of the other packages that are currently derived from the util-linux source package. My suggestion for how to move forward is that he creates a util-linux-ng that generates the the new packages, and uploads them to experimental. Then we can sanity check to make sure that they provide all of the files (in the same place) as the packages generated from e2fsprogs source, and that people can sanely update their system from the e2fsprogs-provided libraries to the util-linux-ng libraries. Once *that's* sane, he can upload into unstable, and the new libraries (if they are based on the version numbering used by util-linux-ng) will have version numbers which are newer than any produced by e2fsprogs (which have 1.x numbers). At that point, the next version of e2fsprogs that I upload will drop those libraries. I've cc'ed Lamont on this note, just to make sure we are on the same page. If not, we should update the plan of record in Debian bug #528830, just so that everyone knows what to expect. Regards, - Ted -- e2fsck will corrupt filesystems when replaying journal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380727 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
