From: Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes <prfl...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-05-19 17:11 GMT-04:00 Subject: Re: Bug#765104: Update hfsprogs to 572.1.1 To: Rogério Brito <rbr...@gmail.com>
2016-02-08 15:54 GMT-03:00 Rogério Brito <rbr...@gmail.com>: > Hi there. > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes <prfl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > There is any issue preventing at least try updating the package? > > Yes. The patches don't apply, the update of a new version needs very > heavy surgery, and this is akin to the maintenance of a full-blown > fork of the package. > > I already asked for help with the package. Please, see: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557892 > > > Maybe providing more insingn in the problem could help us help you get > the > > apropiate update > > I'd appreciate it if you (and other people) could help get the program > updated. > > > or at least if you aren't going to update you could backport security > patchs > > and things. > > Are there any security issues that are solved in later releases and > that apply to the current version in Debian? I'd love to be notified > of those. > > > Thanks, > > Rogério Brito. > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA > http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito > DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br > Hi. So many moons since I dont talk about this but I was bussy. So lets return with all i find. Fedora is packageing a package called *hfsplus-tools* [1] at version 540.1.linux3 at first look look like a fork of hfsprogs and if you look is somekind a fork but not in the traditional sence. I did some testing and efectively is just an adaptation of hfsprogs to a newer version (540.1) at the moment of creation of it. So we somekind solve our problem of an now 10yo version... somekind since it still old compared with lastest 589 [2] but at least it have security upgrades and I think is still compatible with latest hfs+ disk So now the question is you will use this package (either keeping the name, changin it to upstream name or using fedora name) or not? anyway it need test sure and probably could land in Debian X. [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/hfsplus-tools [2] https://opensource.apple.com/source/diskdev_cmds/diskdev_cmds-589/ -- *Pablo Lezaeta* Ups I forgot add debian bugtracker -- *Pablo Lezaeta*
