linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] exfatprogs-1.0.2 version released

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:44:11 -0500
From:   'Goldwyn Rodrigues' <rgoldwyn@...e.de>
To:     Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Cc:     'LKML' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 'Hyunchul Lee' <hyc.lee@...il.com>,
        'Eric Sandeen' <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        'Sedat Dilek' <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] exfatprogs-1.0.2 version released

Hi Namjae,

On 17:49 23/04, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> This is the second release of exfatprogs since the initial version(1.0.1).
> We have received various feedbacks and patches since the previous release
> and applied them in this release. Thanks for feedback and patches!
> 
> According to Goldwyn's comments, We renamed the project name from
> exfat-utils to exfatprogs. However, There is an opinion that just renaming
> the name is not enough. Because the binary names(mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat)
> still are same with ones in current exfat-utils RPM package.
> 
> If that's real problem, We are considering a long jump with 2.0.0 when adding
> repair feature.
> 
> Any feedback is welcome!:)

I agree with Eric. We can add "Conflicts" flag to make sure there are
conflicting capabilities in packages.

> 
> The major changes in this release:
>  * Rename project name to exfatprogs.
>  * label.exfat: Add support for label.exfat to set/get exfat volume label.
>  * Replace iconv library by standard C functions mbstowcs() and wcrtomb().
>  * Fix the build warnings/errors and add warning options.
>  * Fix several bugs(memory leak, wrong endian conversion, zero out beyond end of file) and cleanup codes
>  * Fix issues on big endian system and on 32bit system.
>  * Add support for Android build system.
> 
> The git tree is at:
>       https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs
> 
> The tarballs can be found at:
>       https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/releases/tag/1.0.2
> 

Can we follow the standard of source tarballs be
<projectname>-<version>.tar.gz? In this case, exfat-1.0.2.tar.gz
instead of 1.0.2.tar.gz?

-- 
Goldwyn