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Re: Bug#698879: Bug#698745: dpkg breaks other packages during installation of a package



On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 15:05 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I'd be eager and delighted to fix this bug as a part of pushing out
> e2fsprogs 1.42.7, but I'd like to get a ruling from the release team
> that this is something they would support.  Whether the justification
> is this particular symlink bug, or resize2fs potentially causing data
> loss for > 16TB file systems, either is fine with me.  :-)

A tidied up version of the diff between the current sid / wheezy
packages and the 1.42.7 in experimental comes to

 111 files changed, 2577 insertions(+), 1319 deletions(-)

That's more than we'd generally be happy to accept at this point,
particularly when the symlink bug is purely in the Debian packaging.
(imo, ommv...)

Regards,

Adam


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