[Bug 978012] Re: Please merge e2fsprogs 1.42.2-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

[Theodore Ts'o]

The biggest deal why Ubuntu should strongly consider going to 1.42.2-2
is a number of discard fixes that can end up accidentally destroy file
system data; there was a bug that could accidentally cause part of the
inode table containing in-use inodes to get discarded, and mke2fs -n
would trigger a discard when it shouldn't.  Fortunately, using discard
is not the default; but users tend to get cranky when their file system
gets trashed...

There are a large number of other bugs that have been fixed since
1.42-1; see the RELEASE-NOTES file or the debian/changelog file for more
details.

Also note that 1.42.2-2 in debian has a number of bug fixes above and
beyond the upstream 1.42.2.   1.42.2-2 is basically what will end up
becoming 1.42.3 pending getting updated translations from the
Translation Project.   (Plus any emergency bug fixes that gets
discovered in Debian unstable, although I don't expect much since the
number of changes between 1.42.2 and 1.42.3 is going to be minimal.)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978012

Title:
  Please merge e2fsprogs 1.42.2-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Release notes for e2fsprogs 1.4.2 are at
  http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.42.2 .

  The e2fsprogs main page says:
   | I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. All users of e2fsprogs 
   | are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.2 version as soon as possible, which can be found here

  Mainly, I'm opening this bug as a request that someone else take a
  critical look at the idea of merging at this point in time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: e2fsprogs 1.42-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 10 08:51:13 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-07 (154 days ago)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/978012/+subscriptions