pá 19. 3. 2021 v 21:10 odesílatel Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> napsal:
Hi Martin, Dirk, Paolo, (and Leituviu?) -
I wasn't thinking and didn't include recent committers to the testdisk and partclone packages in my initial post. Neither has a listed maintainer for the openSUSE packages. I'd like feedback on whether libreiserfs support can be dropped from these packages.
The TL;DR version of the below is that I inherited libreiserfs at some point. I haven't maintained it except for a small build fix years ago and will not maintain it. libreiserfs is only used as a direct dependency by these two packages. It was a transitive dependency via parted, but that dependency has been obsolete since 2011 and I've pushed an SR to fix that. Reiserfs support for the dozen or so other packages that require it is provided by the libreiserfscore0 library from the 'reiserfs' package that I do maintain. The libreiserfs package is an abandoned project that has no official location from which to download it and hasn't been updated since 2004 except when people notice the build has broken and fix it.
The alternatives to dropping support for libreiserfs is that someone else steps up to maintain it or someone steps up to port the reiserfs functionality to libreiserfscore0. The functionality in partclone is pretty trivial but the functionality in testdisk is more involved (and has to be buggy already, based on the interfaces).
Thanks,
-Jeff
On 3/19/21 12:25 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Hi As maintainer of partclone, I am absolutely fine with dropping libreiserfs dependnency from partclone. Cheers Martin