On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:26:46 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > One should first check with upstream about that. > IIRC, patches that btrfsprogs recognise the kernel version that is > actually running (and the features supported / not supported by that > version) are only about to be merged.
> So if Debian provides very new btrfsprogs for very old kernels, that > could cause troubles. I've tagged btrfs-tools-4.4-1~bpo8+1 (not my package!) as affected by this bug because it does not even provide a warning of this issue. Would a NEWS file be enough to close this bug? There doesn't seem mechanism to depend on all linux-image versions greater than a particular value, so I'm not really sure. Best regards, Nicholas
