[Filesystems-devel] Bug#970176: aka new upstream release

[Diederik de Haas]

On dinsdag 27 oktober 2020 22:43:50 CET Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Unfortunately, it can take **months** for the package to go throw the
> NEW queue, since f2fs-tools is constantly making ABI-breaking changes
> so we have to bump the shared library, causing it to have to go
> through ftp-masters.
> 
> As such, the super-long latency is super-demotivating, so I've not
> just bothered in a while.

I was aware that the NEW queue is often a challenge. I didn't know that 
upstream made it even more difficult. So I completely understand it's 
demotivating.

> I'll try to get it at some point, but if someone else wants to work on
> making the necessary changes to the package, help is welcome.  
> ...
> If someone else wants to be a co-maintainer, that would be great

I don't have the skill set to help with that ...

> testing f2fs hasn't been high on my priority list.  

I have a bunch of RPi's and SDcards, so maybe I can help with that?

Cheers,
  Diederik
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