On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > OK, I've created a new project in Salsa for f2fs-tools: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/f2fs-tools > > and I've uploaded git repo with a work-in-progress for a f2fs-tools > v1.11.0 packaging. > > A couple of things which I've noted: > > 1) The maintainers is listed as: > > filesystems-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > I wonder if it's worth it to migrate the mailing list over to > lists.debian.org, and leave a forwarding pointer behind at the > lists.alioth.debian.org address? It will take a while to update all > of the various file system utility packages to use a non-Alioth > address, but I wonder if we should get started. Not high priority, so > we don't have to do this on this particular upload.
I can't find a reference right now, but I seem to recall that one of the Alioth admins pointed out that mailing lists specifically for package/bug tracking purposes (i.e. not used for discussion) shouldn't be migrated to lists.d.o. I don't know what other alternatives there are, however. I haven't really kept up with the Alioth migration/deprecation as you can probably tell. :) > 2) In f2fs-tools 1.10.0-1, there is the shared libary package > libf2fs0, which contains the shared libaries: > > libf2fs.so.4.0.0 > libf2fs_format.so.3.0.0 > > In f2fs-tools 1.11.0 upstream, these have been bumped to: > > libf2fs.so.5.0.0 > libf2fs_format.so.4.0.0 > > I very much doubt any other packages are actually depending on > libf2fs0, but it seems wrong that we're using libf2fs0, as opposed to > say, libf2fs4 and now libf2fs5. > > Was this intentional, or just one of those things that had never been > noticed/fixed earlier? Well, the shared library being split into a separate package was intentional (#793863), but having never updated the package name is not (I must have overlooked this somehow...). I wonder how I never got any bug reports about this, because in theory that should mean that android-libf2fs-utils (src:android-platform-system-extras) is flat out broken (I never initiated any transitions or binNMU requests for android-platform-system-extras after f2fs-tools updates). Regards, Vincent
