[HEADS-UP] move eject to util-linux, retire volname

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:53:36PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> 
>  The new util-linux 2.22 release contains eject(1) command, it means
>  that we can retire the original eject package (with inactive upstream).
> 
>  The small disadvantage is that util-linux does not implement command
>  volname(1) from the eject package. The volname returns the volume
>  name for a device formatted with an ISO-9660 file system.
> 
>  This command duplicate blkid (or findmnt or lsblk) code and
>  functionality ... so util-linux upstream does not plan to reimplement
>  this command. For Fedora we have two cases:
> 
>    1) create tiny package with only volname (volunteers?)
> 
>    2) retire volname at all (because it's unnecessary, unmaintained, ...)
> 
> 
>  I vote for 2, it does not make sense to maintain volname if we have
>  _better_ FS probing code in libblkid and better command line interfaces
>  like blkid or lsblk.
> 
>  Comments & objections?
> 
Sounds fine.  Should probably add a release note about it that includes an
example common volname command line and the recommended comandline to
replace it.

-Toshio
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