Re: Bug#318463: Proposed update to e2fsprogs for stable

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:30:09AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:20:49PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > 
> > > I would like to upload the following release to sarge to fix a grave bug
> > > (#318463), and taking the opportunity to fix a few other potential
> > > core-dumping inducing bugs.  All of these are cherry picked from the
> > > e2fsprogs development tree.
> > 
> > > Should I go ahead and upload the following to stable-proposed updates?
> > 
> > 
> > > e2fsprogs (1.37-2sarge2) testing; urgency=low
> >                            ^^^^^^^
> > 
> > If so, please be sure to fix the target in the changelog :)
> 
> Even though this doesn't seem to be critical I'd accept it for the first
> stable update.

Thanks!  I've just uploaded e2fsprogs-1.37-2sarge2.

Unfortunately thanks to things like SE Linux, Samba, etc., the use of
extended attributes is much more common now, and so filesystem
corruptions which will lead to e2fsck core dumping are much more
likely.  (The bug was introduced in e2fsprogs 1.36, BTW).  I've been
getting a number of people reporting this bug as of late, from Debian,
Gentoo, and others.  Unfortunately no one detected it the
testing/unstable releases until after sarge had released.

When is the first stable update planned to be released?

Regards,


						- Ted