[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1039901: Bug#1039901: Demote ntfs-3g from recommends to suggests

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 29.06.23 um 12:33 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
> Package: udisks2
> Version: 2.9.4-4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The change was suggested on 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+git/udisks2/+merge/419970 but the rational applies to Debian as well
> 
> 'Demote ntfs-3g from recommends to suggests; now that ntfs3 kernel 
> module is preferred.'

Could you elaborate here?
If I uninstall ntfs-3g I get

$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1
Error mounting /dev/sdb1: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error mounting 
/dev/sdb1 at /media/michael/EXTREME: Filesystem type ntfs not configured 
in kernel.


Also, ntfs-3g ships mkfs.ntfs etc which would be missing otherwise.
I.e. users wouldn't be able to create NTFS formatted USB sticks for 
example, which is an important use case imho.

Regards,
Michael
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