On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:13:20AM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > As I see, libblkid in e2fsprogs is still being updated. Unfortunately, > code structure is different between two of them which makes direct > comparison of features. > > So - is it "safe" to replace built-in libblkid in e2fsprogs by one in > util-linux-ng? Are there any plans to remove libblkid from e2fsprogs? Um, hardly. There have been a few commits, but they were from Karel Zak, and as far as I know they were mirrored by changes in util-linux-ng. It is supposed to be safe to replace the built-in libblkid in e2fsprogs with the one in util-linux-ng. There may be bugs, but if there are report them, and we'll work to get them fixed. I'll try to keep the bug fixes in e2fsprogs and util-linux-ng roughly synchronized for at least a while, since it takes a while for distributions to make the switch. So a brusque, "drop libblkid, who cares if we screw over distro's that haven't yet moved to util-linux-ng" is not in the cards, no. In terms of formal plan, probably in a year or so. I'm believer in long compatibility windows. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
