#1039901 Demote ntfs-3g from recommends to suggests

Package:
udisks2
Source:
udisks2
Description:
D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices
Submitter:
Sebastien Bacher
Date:
2023-07-12 11:00:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1039901#5
Date:
2023-06-29 10:33:06 UTC
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The change was suggested on
https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+git/udisks2/+merge/419970
but the rational applies to Debian as well

'Demote ntfs-3g from recommends to suggests; now that ntfs3 kernel
module is preferred.'
#1039901#10
Date:
2023-07-11 09:55:12 UTC
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Am 29.06.23 um 12:33 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
If I uninstall ntfs-3g I get

$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1
Error mounting /dev/sdb1:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error mounting
/dev/sdb1 at /media/michael/EXTREME: Filesystem type ntfs not configured
in kernel.


Also, ntfs-3g ships mkfs.ntfs etc which would be missing otherwise.
I.e. users wouldn't be able to create NTFS formatted USB sticks for
example, which is an important use case imho.

Regards,
Michael
#1039901#17
Date:
2023-07-11 13:12:19 UTC
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Am 11.07.23 um 11:55 schrieb Michael Biebl:

See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998627
#1039901#24
Date:
2023-07-11 16:33:58 UTC
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Thanks for pointing those out Michael. I hadn't noticed that Debian
didn't have the ntfs option turned on in their kernel, but the mkfs
point is also valid.

Should I just close the request since currently the recommends seems to
be more appropriate?

Le 11/07/2023 à 15:12, Michael Biebl a écrit :
#1039901#29
Date:
2023-07-12 10:57:44 UTC
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ntfs-3g package could be split into ntfs-3g-fuse and ntfs-3g-utils, and then ntfs-3g-fuse could be a suggests and ntfs-3g-utils could be recommends.

The ntfs-3g utils don't actually depend on the fuse implementation of ntfs, they work with ntfs3 kernel driver too.

However this should probably be coordinated with upstream ntfs-3g.