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Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable"


Even before the Bcachefs file-system driver was accepted into the mainline kernel, Debian for the past five years has offered a 'bcachefs-tools' package to provide the user-space programs to this copy-on-write file-system

And at least it did build, and the resulting binaries did work, although I’m personally still not very comfortable or confident about this approach (perhaps that might change as I learn more about Rust). There is also more commentary within the Debian bug report over orphaning bcachefs-tools and dropping it from unstable.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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