[fedora-arm] e2fsprogs alignment

[Eric Sandeen]

On 7/9/12 1:03 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 05:25 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
>>> And it's a lot more expensive.
>> 
>> I prefect expense over corrupted filesystems or other equally not
>> nice situations.
> 
> I prefer a well written program that doesn't require expensive bodges
> to keep my data safe. What's your point?
> 
>>> Just because there is an expensive workaround doesn't mean it's
>>> not a bug. And arguably even with hardware fixup it's still a bug
>>> and appallingly bad practice.
>> 
>> I don't disagree but then the Fedora ARM SIG is not about
>> development and changes of e2fsprogs and if that is what you're
>> wishing to discuss here the discussion should likely be taken to
>> the upstream e2fsprogs list.
> 
> Maybe, but is that really how upstreaming works? I'm a Fedora user,
> therefore I'm reporting a bug to Fedora. Is it not from there the
> responsibility of the distro package maintainer to see to it that the
> fix is pursued upstream?

Well, I'm the maintainer & also active upstream, so I can handle it, within
the confines of triage I need to do.  My plate is rather full.  Since
you have the hardware, the passion and the knowledge, if you'd like to
help upstream, that'd be great too!

Thanks,
-Eric