[Bug 920545] Re: [update request] NTFS-3G, new STABLE Version 2012.1.15 [Precise]

[Flames_in_Paradise]

Does this bug get automatically transfered upstream. With theses serious
bugfixes beeing given,  it could be well a candidate for a freeze
execption.

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Title:
  [update request] NTFS-3G, new STABLE Version 2012.1.15 [Precise]

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello there!

  
  A new stable version was issued, containing a number of bugfixes, therefore  I'd like to ask to have this incorporated into the Pangolin :

  STABLE Version 2012.1.15 (January 22, 2012)

      ntfs-3g: fixed device path canonicalization for use by devmapper
      ntfs-3g: fixed setting DOS names when defined with lower-case chars
      ntfs-3g: fixed attribute flags controlling recursive writes
      ntfs-3g: fixed compilation on OpenIndiana
      ntfs-3g: fixed options parsing on OSes with no extended attributes
      ntfs-3g: fixed relatime as a default mount option
      ntfs-3g: fixed endless recursion when MFT extents are described by themselves
      ntfs-3g: fixed the description of inherit option
      ntfs-3g: fixed overwriting a truncated file
      ntfs-3g: fixed truncation of DOS file names (12 ntfschars, not 12 utf8 chars)
      ntfs-3g: fixed the setting of attributes by secaudit (index not synced)
      ntfs-3g: faster compression
      ntfs-3g: new option delay_mtime to delay updates of mtime+ctime
      ntfsfix: new option -d to clear the dirty flag if fix is successful
      ntfsfix: fixed volume dirty flag test
      ntfsfix: new option to clear the list of bad sectors
      ntfsfix: fixed compilation on Sparc
      ntfsfix: fixed a bug causing a segmentation violation
      ntfsfix: repair self-located MFT data bug
      ntfscp: fix free space calculation
      ntfscp: support compression
      ntfsresize: implemented expanding runlists
      ntfsresize: updated the description of the -f option
      ntfsresize: expand an NTFS volume downwards
      ntfsclone: backup bootsector not be to accounted for
      ntfsclone: creating/restoring a metadata image
      ntfsundelete: try to recover the file name when undeleting
      ntfsundelete: use inode number to name unnamed files
      ntfswipe: Big endian and other fixes
      secaudit: prefixed owner and group SID in ACL display
      library: fixed big cluster support using 4kB sector disk
      library: fixed huge data writes
      library: use transparent compression by default
      library: fixed several bad returns in error conditions
      library: enabled getting the sector size on FreeBSD and MacOSX
      build: fixed “make libs” to only build librarie

  to be found @ http://www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/

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