[Bug 1006739] Re: Release of e2fsprogs 1.42.3

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 978012 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978012

Hello,

Thank you for pasting the release notes. I am well aware of 1.42.3.
According to upstream maintainer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) , who is also
debian maintainer, there will shortly be 1.42.4. I will consider pushing
1.42.4 for precise, when it's available. I am not sure what you would
like to request here. 1.42.2-2ubuntu1 already has  fixes which address
bugs in the discard handling of e2fsck. I will be marking this bugreport
as a duplicate of #978012.

Regards,
Dmitrijs.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 978012
   Please merge e2fsprogs 1.42.2-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

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Title:
  Release of e2fsprogs 1.42.3

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  E2fsprogs 1.42.3 (May 14, 2012)
  ===============================

  Fix a bug in the Unix I/O manager which could cause corruption of file
  systems with more than 16TB when e2fsprogs is compiled in 32-bit mode
  (i.e., when unsigned long is 32-bits).  Also fix a bug which caused
  dumpe2fs to incorrectly display block numbers > 32-bits.

  Improve the support for integrated quota files (where quota is a first
  class supported feature using hidden files in the ext4 file system).
  Previously the quota file was getting rewritten even when it was not
  necessary, and e2fsck would erroneously try to hide quota files which
  were already hidden.

  Quiet complaints in e2fsck when the total free blocks or inodes are
  incorrect in the superblock after an system crash, since we don't
  update nor depend on the superblock summaries at each commit boundary.

  Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.2 which would cause applications
  outside of e2fsprogs which did not pass the EXT2_FLAG_64BIT (and so
  would were still using the legacy 32-bit bitmaps) to crash.  This was
  due to missing 32-bit compat code in side the function
  ext2fs_find_first_zero_generic_bmap().  (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
  #808421)
      
  Fix a bug which would cause mke2fs to fail creating the journal if
  /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are missing.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
  #3509398)
      
  Updated/fixed various man pages.

  Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese
  translations

  Fixed various Debian Packaging issues.

  
  Programmer's Notes
  ------------------

  Change the nonsensically wrong types in the function signature of the
  inline function ext2fs_find_first_zero_block_bitmap2().  This was
  caused by a cut and paste error; fortunately no code in e2fsprogs used
  this inline function, and there are any users of this functions
  outside of e2fsprogs.

  Add support for systems which have valloc(), but which do have
  posix_memalign() nor memalign() (such as MacOS 10.5).

  Refactor and clean up the allocation of aligned buffers for Direct I/O
  support.  Previously some allocations were requesting a greater
  alignment factor that what was strictly necessary.  Also optimize
  reading and writing bitmaps using Direct I/O when the size of the
  bitmap did not fully cover the file system blocksize.

  Reserve the codepoints for the INCOMPAT features LARGEDATA and
  INLINEDATA.

  Improved the regression test suite by adding some new integration
  tests (f_jnl_32bit, f_jnl_64bit) which detect breakage of the on-disk
  jbd2 format, as well as f_eofblocks which tests the new handling of
  uninitialized and initialized blocks beyond i_size.  Also add a new
  unit test which verifies 32-bit bitmaps support and the new
  find_first_zero primitives.

  Add a few dependencies to fix parallel (make -j) builds.

  Removed bash'isms which were breaking the regression test suite on
  systems where /bin/sh is not bash.

  The config.guess and config.sub have been updated to the 2012-02-10
  version.
      
  Fix a portability problem caused by assuming the present of mntent.h
  means that setmntent() exists.  Instead, explicitly test for this in
  the configure script.

  If the sys/signal.h header file does not exist, don't try to include
  it, since it's not available on all systems.

  Add support for systems that do not support getpwuid_r()
      
  The configure script now supports a new option,
  --enable-relative-symlinks, which will install relative symlinks for
  the ELF shared library files.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3520767).
      
  When building BSD shared libraries make sure the LDFLAGS variable is
  passed to the linker.  Fixing this allows, for example, e2fsprogs to
  be built in 32-bit mode on Mac OS X Lion (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
  #3517272)
      
  Fix gcc -Wall nitpicks
  ____

  http://lwn.net/Articles/497203/
  http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.42.3

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