Package: fuse Version: 2.9.3-15+deb8u2 Followup-For: Bug #840075 Control: retitle 840075 "Please package libfuse 3.0"
Hi Laszlo, I have just released libfuse 3.0.0. I believe this version is stable, and will be supported for many years to come. It would be great if we could still get this into stretch. libfuse 3 deliberately breaks backward compatibility, so I think libfuse2 should continue to be shipped in parallel. libfuse 3 is designed to be co-installable with libfuse 2. However, some files will be installed by both libfuse 2 and libfuse 3 (e.g. /etc/fuse.conf, the udev and init scripts, and the mount.fuse(8) manpage). These files should be taken from libfuse 3. The format/content is guaranteed to remain backwards compatible with libfuse 2. I think the best solution would be to ship libfuse2 and libfuse3 in three separate packages: a libfuse-common package that contains files shared by libfuse 2+3 (taken from the libfuse3 tarball), and libfuse2 and libfuse3 packages that contain the shared library and helper programs for the respective version. Best, -Nikolaus
