[Nix-dev] btrfs-progs (was: contributing to nixpkgs/nixos)

[Peter Simons]

Hi Mathijs,

 > That tarball (from the current package) is no longer there and was
 > outdated for a long time. For a long time, other distributions moved
 > to btrfs-progs-unstable, because it was actually more stable and
 > worked with more current features supported by kernel 2.6.37+. Since
 > 2 weeks however, maintenance for btrfs-progs (non-unstable) was
 > resumed and work got integrated again. So maybe we will get a tarball
 > soon. But as stated, the current tarball is gone anyway.

The maintainer of btrfs-progs seems to be Michael Raskin. Michael, do
you have any opinion in this matter?

Take care,
Peter