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Remove support for btrfs-progs < 3.12

Mike Fleetwood requested to merge mfleetwo/gparted:modern-btrfs-tools into master

This merge request was inspired by this comment from Bug 792485 - btrfs check (btrfsck) does not repair

As a side note, btrfsck is an alias of the btrfs check command and is now deprecated.

The oldest supported distributions have these versions of the Linux kernel and btrfs-progs:

  Distro             EOL        kernel    btrfs-progs
- RHEL / CentOS 7    2024-Jun   3.10.0    4.9.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS   2019-Apr   4.4.0     3.12
- Debian 8           2020-Jun   3.16.0    3.17
- SLES 12            2027-Oct   3.12.28   3.16

Making the oldest supported packages be kernel 3.10 and btrfs-progs 3.12 allows the btrfs support code to be simplied by removing backward compatibility code.

Edited by Mike Fleetwood

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