On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:14:39AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Why do you care? It's an extremely minor bug, and it's really not > worth the effort to fix things for just a really minor bugfix like > this.
I care because it's an ugly bug that will be present for the whole lifetime of jessie + jessie LTS if we do not fix it. > Given that e2fsprogs is used in the installer, it means that if > I push a fix, the installer would have to be respun, etc. So it's a > lot of work (for people beyond just me) for very little gain. The installer is always rebuilt anyway before every point release, and it takes whatever it is in stable + proposed-updates at the time. So this is not really more work for the installer. The only required thing is to backport the fix and prepare an upload for stable-proposed-updates. Then we would have to ask release managers for permission by submitting a wishlist bug against release.debian.org. If this is an unwanted work for you, I would be willing to do most of the work, as I already did with the bug in "sed" which made /bin not to be 755, which resulted in this upload: https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sed/news/20160919T201143Z.html and the maintainer did not have to do anything at all, other than pointing to the fix which was already in git. Do you think the bug in sed was also "completely minor"? The release managers allowed it to be fixed in jessie for the next point release. Thanks.
