Updated e2fsprogs that should be consided for etch
Hi, I just uploaded e2fsprogs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 to
unstable, and while we still need to wait for the settling time, I
thought I should mention now that I'd like to have this package version
considered for etch. A list of changes in this package version that
justifies why I believe this version should really be included in etch:
* E2fsck -c and mke2fs -c will give a spurious error because they were
previously trying to check one more block than the block device has.
(This was caused by a botched fix to #386475 --- my fault, and fixed
in this release.)
* If there are corrupted directories with directory hashing enabled on
architectures with unsigned characters (powerpc, arm, s/390) e2fsck
will choke on the filesystem and incorrectly fix them in a way which
is incompatible with the kernel running on those platforms. (#389772)
* Fix a type-punning bug which caused crashes on Arm, and could
potentially cause failures on other platforms. (#397044)
* Fixed a DFSG issue where the current e2fsprogs tarball accidentally
had the an Internet-Draft included even though it had a +dfsg version
tag. My bad, fixed in this release, and I've double checked twice.
:-) (#390664)
Thanks, regards,
- Ted
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