Please backport ntfs-3g

Thanks for your report. The latest version in Ubuntu is now ntfs-3g 1:1.2506-1ubuntu2. I have turned this into a proper hardy-backports request, as described at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports.

Builds in prevu with no source changes. Attempted a quick NTFS mount and nothing seemed to go wrong. AFAICT the mount options didn't change so rdepends like the mounting subsystem and such are not affected. This looks good for backporting. I'l let it sit here for a bit in case any of the other backporters have objections, but history has shown ntfs-3g stable releases to be quite reliable.

I've tested ntfs-3g version 1:1.2506-1ubuntu2, and it works fine, but I've seen that there is a newer version in Jaunty (precisely 1:1.2531-1.1ubuntu2): I've built it with prevu and tested a bit and seems to work fine! So it's possible to backport directly this newer version?

Eh - according to their homepage http://www.ntfs3g.org/ the stable version is 1.5130 ;-) Jaunty is using a testing version...

Well spotted. I did the Jaunty merge from Debian unstable a couple of weeks ago, before the latest stable version was released. 1.5130 was only released yesterday, and seeing as it's unlikely Debian will get this version for a while, I might attempt to package the newest version for Jaunty later this week.

ACK on 1:1.2506-1ubuntu2 (*INTREPID* version):

This version I've been locally using for a long time with no problems; the Jaunty version I'm less confident about after the fresh merge. Let's wait until the new upstream version gets into Jaunty then look at Intrepid/Hardy backports of that version.

Hi all,
 I had a terrible time using the ntfs-3g driver in Jaunty. Whenever I
used to do sudo fdisk -l (I had two hard disks with one for ubuntu and
the other for windows) it used to hang. It took me quite sometime to
know that was partly due to ntfs-3g driver as well.
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@Shirish: NTFS-3G is a user space driver. It can't hang the system. Only buggy kernels can. Nevertheless your experience is very unique and it sounds to be a hardware problem.

It's also possible that Ubuntu patched the driver and something went terrible wrong. But then, much more people would report this problem but so far you're the only one.

Chris,
 any update on that new ntfs-3g packaging using upstream stable version 1.5130 ?
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 * Trying to backport ntfs-3g...
  - <ntfs-3g_1.2506-1ubuntu2.dsc: downloading from librarian>
  - <ntfs-3g_1.2506-1ubuntu2.diff.gz: downloading from librarian>
  - <ntfs-3g_1.2506.orig.tar.gz: downloading from librarian>
I: Extracting ntfs-3g_1.2506-1ubuntu2.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of ntfs-3g-1.2506 as 1:1.2506-1ubuntu2~hardy1 ... done.

Hi all,
 Any update on the backport to Intrepid?
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Shirish, ntfs-3g 1:1.2531-1.1ubuntu2 is the version in Jaunty, and as discussed above this version is not appropriate for an Intrepid backport. Until 1.5130 makes it to Jaunty, an Intrepid backport will have to wait.

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