Demote libreiserfs0.3-0 from minimal to supported?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:11:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> libreiserfs0.3-0 has been in the minimal seed forever (i.e. since
> Warty's base seed, and as far back as our records in bzr go), with this
> justification:
> 
>  * libreiserfs0.3-0 # gives parted the ability to work with reiserfs
> 
> However, this seems to be actively detrimental. In particular, when
> using Ubiquity to install to a reiserfs / partition, I get an I/O error
> (in VMware, excluding the possibility of a hardware problem). Removing
> libreiserfs0.3-0 from the system before installing means that partman
> falls back to using mkfs.reiserfs rather than parted to create the
> filesystem, which is what we've always done successfully in the
> traditional installer, and then a Ubiquity install works fine.
> 
> This sort of data corruption under very simple use is evidence to me
> that we shouldn't be offering parted with the ability to work with
> reiserfs anyway, and thus we'd be better off certainly removing it from
> minimal and possibly demoting it to universe too; and of course I'd like
> to fix the resulting installer bug as well. Does anyone object to this?

Agreed; let's drop it.

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 - mdz