On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 05:36:52PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:09:53PM -0700, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> > The same is true for the debian package, but are these used in Fedora ?
> > > For backwards compat, could those be turned into shell scripts which
> > > invoke the btrfs tool?
> > 
> > I don't see any gain to maintains a script bash (which has to be written 
> > from scratch) instead of maintains the current C code.
> > 
> > These programs were deprecated two years ago [1]. If some distribution 
> > need them, could maintain them as separate patch. But I think that the 
> > mainstream should remove.
> 
> I'd say that if SuSE or oracle depend on them we keep them.  Otherwise,
> I'm fine with removing them or just making the 3 line bash script.

I wanted to remove them once from our packages, but some tool uses them.
I'm fine with replacing them with a shellscript, this is just a
syntactic conversion from btrfsctl style to the subcommands.


david
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