Confusion over mkfs.ubifs versions

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:27 -0600, David Lambert wrote:
> After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 I noticed that the stock mkfs.ubifs 
> (version 1.3) failed to compute checksums correctly. I compiled my own 
> version from the git source of mtd-utils which announces itself as 
> version 1.4; this worked fine. Being curious I logged onto a machine 
> running Ubuntu 10.4 and checked the version of mkfs.ubifs and also found 
> it to be 1.3, but this version computes checksums correctly! Is there a 
> sub-version of mkfs.ubifs between 1.3 and 1.4 that is not shown by using 
> --version? Am I missing something critical here?

Since mtd-utils are not managed very well, and we were not tagging them
regularly enough, I think Ubuntu guys just picked a non-tagged snapshot
which had that bug. Just take newer version please, or ask Ubunto folks
to do this.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)