linux-ext4 - Release of e2fsprogs 1.43.9

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Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:42:03 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Release of e2fsprogs 1.43.9

In prepartion for a 1.44.x release, I've flushed out the remaining bug
fixes (including one which caused 1.43.8 to fail to build on big
endian systems) and released e2fsprogs 1.43.9 in all of the usual
places; it's tagged in the git trees on git.kernel.org, github, and
sourceforge, and available for download at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.43.9

and

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.43.9.tar.gz

The release notes for 1.43.9 can be found below.

                                    - Ted

E2fsprogs 1.43.9 (February 8, 2018)
===================================

Remove the huge file flag from libe2p (and hence from chattr/lsattr),
since it was never made visible by the kernel.  Remove the description
of some compression related flags, and add a description of the
encrypted file flag, and the project hierarchy flag.

Remove a misplaced "MNP is unsupported" message from debugfs.

Fix a build failure in lib/ext2fs/swapfs.c on big-endian systems.
(Addresses Debian Bug #886119)

Fix various Debian packaging issues.  (Addresses Debian Bug #269569).