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Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 11:18:06 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
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Subject: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging
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On Thu 2018-04-26 12:36:50, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Pavel Machek - 26.04.18, 08:11:
> > On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging.  Also recently, we had some
> > > fuzzer developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security
> > > hole because Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as
> > > hfs.
> >=20
> > We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such
> > promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer.
> >=20
> > Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not
> > designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea.
> >=20
> > Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter.
>=20
> Good point.
>=20
> Moving things in and out to some "unmaintained" directory=E2=80=A6 I am n=
ot sure=20
> about that either. I tend to think that moving code around does not=20
> solve the underlying issue.
>=20
> Which, according to what I got from Matthew, was that distributors=20
> enable just about every filesystem they can enable which lead to hfs=20
> being used for automounting an USB stick formatted with it.

If distro's are shipping it, they are also willing to fix it. So
=2E.. no need to drop the code just yet.

									Pavel
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