On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:24:46AM +0200, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > > The problems appears as soon as I upgrade from e2fsprogs 1.42.12-2+b1 > (the version in Jessie) to either the version in Stretch or the > version in jessie-backport. So it looks like e2fsprogrs 1.43, breaks > something with existing ext2simg (I am using ext2simg from > android-tools-fsutils, so the 'old' one). So *that* shouldn't have happened. I do try to keep the ABI/API of the libext2fs shared library stable, even across major version numbers. That being said, I suspect ext2simg was doing something that made it highly dependent on the internal implementation detalis of libext2fs. It would be interesting to know what in the world that was, so I can try to avoid that in the future. But I've always viewed many of these tools to be quite highly fragile, so I'm not sure there's much we can do to fix this in terms of changing what libext2fs is doing. But if I can fix/improve the backwards compatibility problem from libext2fs's side, I'm certainly willing to entertain that notion. - Ted
