I talked to tytso on irc, here's the log: > [21:02:03] <tytso> mbiebl: what's up? > [21:02:38] <mbiebl> remember my email, regarding util-linux/e2fsprogs/blkid > for Debian? > [21:05:00] <mbiebl> what's your take on this? > [21:05:26] <mbiebl> Newer versions of hal and udev require a newer libblkid > and so are blocked by this > [21:52:57] <tytso> mbiebl: sorry, was away from my IM window.... > [21:54:38] <tytso> mbiebl: We should be able to do the transition at this > point, I think. I think we've found the last set of bugs with it. > [22:08:19] <mbiebl> tytso: cool, thanks for the update > [22:10:49] <tytso> mbiebl: Please let me know when util-linux-ng gets > released providing the latest blkid and uuid libraries. you need the very > latest util-linux-bg rc > [22:12:12] <mbiebl> the version in unstable is 2.15.1~rc1, that should be > sufficient, right? > [22:12:45] <tytso> sandeen: the users will see nonsensical error messages, > such as "resize2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open mountpoint > /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo" > [22:13:13] <tytso> mbiebl: You need rc2, and it needs to be built enabling > uuid and blkid libraries > [22:13:40] <mbiebl> ok, I'll forward this to the util-linux maintainer > [22:14:58] <tytso> 2.15.1~rc1 doesn't have all of the pieces of the handoff; > at least according to some bug reports I got from Gentoo users. (Or it could > have been a Gentoo packaging bug; not sure). > [22:16:46] <tytso> in any case, what should happen is that util-linux-ng > should be built so that it provides the current packages which are provided > by e2fsprogs: specifically, libblkid1, libblkid1-dbg, libblkid1-udeb, > libblkid-dev, libuuid1, libuuid1-dbg, libuuid1-udeb, uuid-dev, uuid-runtime, > uuid-runtime-dbg. > [22:18:23] <tytso> The util-linux-ng maintainer needs to make sure all of the > packages are built correctly, and provides exactly the same files and > interfaces as e2fsprogs. I'd suggest uploading to experimental first, to > make sure they work correctly and don't screw up users with the transition, > which will be a little tricky. Since these libraries are required for boot > up, a mistake here could cause users using unstable to not be able to boot. > [22:19:55] <mbiebl> tytso: just to be sure, with rc2, you mean 2.6.16 rc2? > [22:19:56] <tytso> I'm a bit surprised that the hal and udev upstream wasn't > built with appropriate configure options so they could use older libblkid > libraries. > [22:20:25] <tytso> I've been testing _only_ with the very latest > util-linux-ng git tree. just a sec, let me check. > [22:21:46] <tytso> yes, 2.6.16-rc2. > [22:22:05] <tytso> I'm pretty sure 2.15.1~rc1 (if that's what is in unstable) > is way too old. > [22:22:31] <tytso> in any case, there is non-trivial packaging work that the > util-linux-ng maintainer will have to do.
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