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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Btrfs progs release 4.16.1
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:31:20 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$3f697$9cfd5cd2$6e9f2dc3$73937e71@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20180424115857.25174-1-dsterba@suse.com

David Sterba posted on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:58:57 +0200 as excerpted:

> btrfs-progs version 4.16.1 have been released.  This is a bugfix
> release.
> 
> Changes:
> 
>   * remove obsolete tools: btrfs-debug-tree, btrfs-zero-log,
>   btrfs-show-super, btrfs-calc-size

Cue the admin-side gripes about developer definitions of micro-upgrade 
explicit "bugfix release" that allow disappearance of "obsolete tools".

Arguably such removals can be expected in a "feature release", but 
shouldn't surprise unsuspecting admins doing a micro-version upgrade 
that's specifically billed as a "bugfix release".

(Further support for btrfs being "still stabilizing, not yet fully stable 
and mature."  But development mode habits need to end /sometime/, if 
stability is indeed a goal.) 

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-25  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-24 11:58 Btrfs progs release 4.16.1 David Sterba
2018-04-25  6:31 ` Duncan [this message]
2018-04-25 11:02   ` David Sterba
2018-04-25 11:22     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-04-25 11:29       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2018-04-25 11:49         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-04-25 17:56     ` Duncan

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