[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#528830: util-linux: Please package new upstream release 2.15 with libblkid

[Michael Biebl]

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.13.1.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi LaMont,

I'm currently looking into packaging the new hal 0.5.12 release.
One of it's new build dependencies is libblkid >= 1.43, which apparently is
now provided by util-linux-ng 2.15, which as far as I read, will
replace libblkid from e2fsprogs (I CCed Ted for that matter).
hal 0.5.12 will no longer build depend on libvolume-id.

Newer versions of udev (>= 142) will drop its internal libvolume-id lib
and also use libblkid from util-linux. I don't know, what Marco's plans
are wrt the new udev release, so I CCed him too (especially as there is
a remaining rdep of libvolume-id left, namely gfs(2)-tools).

So, this bug is not only about getting util-linux 2.15 and its libblkid
packaged but also to coordinate this with e2fsprogs, udev (and rdeps)
and hal.
I'm especially interested if Ted plans to drop libblkid from e2fsprogs
as soon as util-linux ships this package.

Cheers,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.3
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090510-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libselinux1            2.0.71-1          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libslang2              2.1.4-3           The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  libuuid1               1.41.5-1          universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-22            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  tzdata                 2009g-1           time zone and daylight-saving time
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  dosfstools                    3.0.2-1    utilities for making and checking 
ii  kbd                           1.15-1     Linux console font and keytable ut
pn  util-linux-locales            <none>     (no description available)

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