On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 06:01:16PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Hello Michael, > > * Michael Richardson <mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, thanks for your work on debian packages. > > I'm contacting you wearing my IETF uuidrev WG co-chair on. > > > > The https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/uuidrev/documents/ WG was chartered to > > update RFC4122 last summer, and we expect to start a WGLC on RFC4122bis in > > the next few weeks. This is just a heads up for now. > > > > Some comments, even they are just "Looks Good to Me" from the util-linux > > folks would be awesome. > > Thanks for reaching out, but from the Debian side I think we have > little to comment on (mostly for lack of expertise). > > I've CC:ed the upstream mailing list, in the hope that upstream > util-linux folks have comments. Hi, I originally wrote the uuid implementation in util-linux. Originally, it was first in e2fsprogs, and then later the library was transferred to util-linux at least for most Linux distributions. Technically speaking, however, libuuid is still shipped in the e2fsprogs sourecs and that's the version which is used by Android and some non-Linux OS's including NetBSD and Darwin (MacOS may have forked the library, though, so if I shipped updates in e2fsprogs how quickly it would get picked up by Apple.) Libuuid is mostly in maintenance mode, actually; the sort of changes that have landed recently have been to support the getrandom(2) system call. I'm not sure what the context is for this e-mail thread, or what you're asking for in terms of an LGTM? Were you looking for comments on draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis? Or were you hoping to see if folks might be interested in implementing the new UUID versions in draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis so the libuuid in Linux might support those new variants? Cheers, - Ted P.S. Hi Michael; long time no chat --- I haven't been to an IETF meeting in many years!)
