The testing which I have personally done is that I have built and run it on Ubuntu Gutsy; it passes the regression test suite and I have been using it on my production laptop without any problems. It definitely does upgrade correctly from the previous Ubuntu Gutsy version, as I regularly downgrade and upgrade e2fsprogs. I have not done any testing on Ubuntu Hardy.
The changes between 1.40.3 and 1.40.7 are upstream microreleases that are primarily bug fixes; there are some new filesystem types which blkid has been taught how to use, including being able to properly detect ext4/ext4dev filesystems which were needed to future-proof e2fsprogs. This is largely moot given that mount doesn't use the blkid library (which means mount will almost certainly fail to correctly detect and deal with ext4 filesystem on Ubuntu Hardy, but this is true regardless of whether you uplift e2fsprogs or not). The other big change of note was to fix Red Hat Bug #233471 / Sourceforge Bug #1529672 which required substantial changes to the uuid library, including an optional uuidd daemon which has been packaged in a new package, uuid-runtime. So it's a bug fix, but it's a biggy. This received extensive testing by Red Hat, Novell, and the Major Enterprise Resource Planning ISV that requested this bugfix. Oh, one other change of note is that mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes. This is brings a **significant** speedup on systems using SELinux and Samba, and provides better ext4 future-proofing (since many of ext4's new features require the larger 256-byte inode). This change is pretty easy to revert simply by changing the mke2fs.conf file, and this may have an impact on the installer. As you look at the diffstats and the Release Notes, the changes are definitely quite substantial. But there have been a huge number of bug fixed, so therein lies the tradeoff. I can definitely see how the Ubuntu Release Team might in the end decide this is too risky, despite all of the bugs that had been fixed, as it is pretty late in the game. Your call.... (although if you don't my guess is someone is going to have to pull down a subset of patches since I suspect Launchpad #187265 in particular will get multiple complaints once Hardy gets a broader test audience) -- Please sync e2fsprogs e2fsprogs 1.40.7-1 with Debian https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197167 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
