On Dec 25 2018, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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?
No, but in most cases the necessary changes are not too invasive.
> P.S. If fuse3 and fuse are not co-installable, we really should have
> managed this as a formal buster migration earlier.
They are co-installable in principle, this is just a bug in packaging.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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