Hi Eduard,
Thanks for the super quick response!
Package: encfs
Version: 1.7.4-2.4+b1
Ok, thanks, but seriously, that's oldstable. I would rather wait for
1.8.2 and backport it to oldstable then.
Is there any important reason for cherry-picking?
What you call oldstable is "current" in my book, while jessie is "new".
So, I have a bunch of *current* machines, and I want to deploy encfs on
a few of those *current* machines (okay, I'll stop with the sarcasm now
:P ) for encrypted backup support. But it's unusable if a recursive
lookup (updatedb, find /) hangs the filesystem. Hence this fix.
I've made cherry-patched packages for those machines and was planning to
deploy those, not wait for Debian to update them. So in my case it
doesn't matter: we can certainly wait for an 1.8.x backport. The
argument against waiting would be that I don't know anything about the
stability of the 1.8.x branch, while the 1.7.4 version has potentially
been tested longer.
TLDR; I don't have an opinion on the matter :)
Vielen dank,
Walter Doekes
OSSO B.V.
