Re: util-linux status

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:04:46PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> What is the status of util-linux?
> There doesn't seem to be anything significant
> released in about 1.5 years now.
> 
> I'm worried about patches getting lost,
> especially since there were a large number
> of thirdparty bugs/patches referenced in
> the changelog for 2004.
> 
> Personally I submitted a patch in 2004 that was
> merged immediately, then I sent a simple bug fix
> early in 2005 that has never been released.
>...
> This is the timeline over the last while as I see it:
> 
> 23 Sep 2005 ----------------------------------------2.12r
>   cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
>   umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
> 20 Jan 2005 ----------------------------------------2.12q
>   updated translations
> 01 Jan 2005 ----------------------------------------Maintainership change
> 23 Dec 2004 ----------------------------------------2.12p
>                            :
>                            : many changes in 16 versions
>                            :
> 05 Mar 2004 ----------------------------------------2.12a

What is missing in your timeline are the 2.13-pre releases that contain 
everything I've done.

But I know I have a big backlog of util-linux emails, and I hope having 
soon some spare time for handing them.

> Pádraig.

cu
Adrian

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