(please don't CC me to answers, I'm subscribed to the BTS) Quoting Thomas Dreibholz (dreibh@iem.uni-due.de): > Tirsdag 22. oktober 2013 13.06.05 skrev Christian PERRIER: > > Quoting Thomas Dreibholz (dreibh@iem.uni-due.de): > > > Hi, > > > > > > why has reiserfs support been removed before useful tools to convert > > > reiserfs > > Because the kernel does not longer provide reiserfs modules? > > Then, why does the kernel not longer provide reiserfs modules so that partman- > reiserfs cannot support reiserfs any more? IIRC, because ReiserFS has been declared "obsolete" and the kernel maintainers in Debian don't want to support obsolete code, that may trigger long-term security support, for instance. > > The kernel (from git.kernel.org) still has reiserfs support, so why is Debian > removing support without providing any smooth migration path to the users? > Particularly, the support is even removed without providing a better (or at > least equal) solution. The only possibilities are to use ext4 (a performance > downgrade) or btrfs (replacing a stable file system by an experimental one). "Debian" does not take decisions. "Debian" is a collection of individual maintainers who focus on the packages they maintain, and, in most situations, Do The Right Thing. Here, the decision to drop reiserfs modules was decided by the kernel package maintainers. Please talk to them (but be ready to very very very serious argumentation, they are among the most skilled and clever Debian maintainers I ever met....)
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