Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

[Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>]

Hi Gianfranco

On 6 May 2016 at 04:32, Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi, it would be nice to avoid having a possible and problematic version even in experimental.
> Specially because it might be source of data-losses to the end users.
>
I agree, however, upstream's official recommendation is to use a
version of btrfs-progs at least as new as the kernel.  Every release
fixes some bugs, sometimes serious.  For example, btrfs-progs-4.5
fixes "subvol sync: fix crash, memory corruption", but the whole 4.5
series is implicated in the bug reports I've read.  I'm closely
following the associated threads on the linux-btrfs mailing list.
It's possible that the reports are due to buggy hardware, something in
the md layer of the kernel, or something in LUKS.  I plan to repackage
for sid after these issues are resolved.  In the meantime isn't
experimental the best way to honour upstream intent/recommendations,
while insulating users by keeping it out of the normal upgrade stream
for all dists?

>
> BTW, please ask xnox to comaintain the package, if you really want to help in packaging it.
>

Waiting for his reply.

> BTW how do you feel about creating a dummy btrfs-tools-udev package too? it seems it has been left behind on the archive
> probably you want to break+replace it too, right?

This was discussed with the D-I team some time ago, and they said it
was better to patch partman-btrfs and debian-cd.  Both have been
patched and are now in the archive.

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>
> and now the copyright review (partial)
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> + * Copyright (C) 2012 STRATO AG.  All rights reserved.
>
> ^^ missing
>
> many of the copyrights seems to be gpl2 only, not gpl2+
>

What is the convenience script used to do copyright review?  :-)  I'll
fix these in my next upload.

Thanks again for the review!
Nicholas