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Re: Dropping the ntfs kernel module



On Tue, 2019-06-11 at 11:34 +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 08.06.19 14:07, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> 
> > > I think we should also disable building it in updates to jessie and
> > > stretch, but would like to get an OK from the Stable Release Managers
> > > before doing that.
> > 
> > Any opinion on your side on disabling building the ntfs kernel module
> > for stretch?
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea if an update suddenly removes some
> filesystem - people might realy on it. (dist-upgrade is another story,
> here one might be prepared to such things)

I very much doubt that people do depend on it, because it has never
been very useful and there is a better alternative that gets used by
default.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.


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