Bug#546365: What about uploading pmount to stable ?

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>]

  Hello,

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>>   It's been a month without any activity on this request yet. What time
>> is necessary to safely assume that the request has been refused ?
>
> Were those deprecated sysfs features dropped from the kernel or could they
> still be activated even on newer ones, although they are disabled by
> default?

  I'm unsure about the newer 2.6.30 kernel, but for 2.6.28/2.6.29,
they are simply disabled by default. They are also disabled on all
debian kernel images post-lenny. The thing is that pmount is for
end-users that will not know how to compile a kernel, and definitely
will not know where to look for the information in any case. That's
why I think it is important: pmount should work out-of-the-box on
updated kernel images for lenny and a half. What is better is that the
newer pmount makes much less strong assumptions about the sysfs
structure, which means that it will probably not get obsolescent too
quickly with respect to newer sysfs structures.

  Cheers,

      Vincent