Il giorno mar 25 dic 2018 alle ore 17:12 Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
ha scritto:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:03:34PM +0100, Oibaf wrote:
> > The package fuse3 is available since awhile in sid/buster.
> > Their users however are still using old fuse (v2), e.g. sshfs-fuse.
> > According to this:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912528
> > fuse3 is not co-installable with fuse, but a patch is available.
> >
> > So is there a chance this get fixed and sshfs-fuse and other package can
> be
> > updated to use fuse3 for buster?
>
> Thanks for mentioning it!  I didn't even *know* about the existence of
> fuse3.  Is libfuse3 API compatible with fuse2?  In other words, is it
> just a recompile away for e2fsprogs to be able to produce a fuse2fs
> binary that works with fuse3?
>

Here are some info on fuse3 changes:
https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/tag/fuse-3.0.0

If so, I wonder if we would be better off renaming libfuse3-dev to
> something like fuse-dev?  That would mean that people who just
> recompiled their packages would pick up fuse3 support.  It would also
> make it easier for people like myself, who try to make e2fsprogs and
> its debian packaging trivially backportable to stable, old-stable, and
> old-old-stable.
>
> Well, it would still be annoying in the short-term, since I'll have to
> teach my scripts how to generate a different debian/control from
> debian/control.in so that we use libfuse2-dev for pre-Buster, and
> libfuse3-dev or fuse-dev for Buster+.  But if we chase things so that
> it's fuse-dev for Buster+. in the future it will be easier to support
> debian packaging trivially for muliple Debian releases.
>
> Cheers,
>
>                                         - Ted
>
> P.S.  If fuse3 and fuse are not co-installable, we really should have
> managed this as a formal buster migration earlier.  Oh, well, water
> under the bridge, but we're going to have to move briskly before the
> Debian Buster transition freeze of January 12, 2019.  :-/
>

It appears fuse3 was fixed and upgraded, now it should be co-installable
with fuse (v2):
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fuse3

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