Bug#284469: "cp -a" fails on some filesystems, causing postin st failure

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

>> If I cannot rely on POSIX being followed, I cannot write maintainer
>> scripts at all.
>> 
> After reading this: How about simply closing these bugs with a little
> note, that the submitter used a non-official kernel with a broken XFS
> implementation. 

Well, I hope keeping them will prevent people from reporting it over and
over again. We just experienced that it doesn't help always, but we
don't know how many bug reports we didn't get.

I planned to close the bugs once sarge is released, and Debian ships a
kernel that includes XFS support. 

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer