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: