Hi Dipak,
Dipak Zope1 <Dipak.Zope1@ibm.com> (2022-03-12):
> I have completed the installer testing for dasd and zfcp and this is
> the only outstanding item for s390x installer. I would recommend it
> for backporting.
This is great news.
> The merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/s390-dasd/-/merge_requests/1
Thanks, so basically, -f needs to go away.
It was apparently dropped between 1.36.1-1 and 1.37.1-1, even if that
wasn't documented:
Release History:
================
+1.37.1
+ Changes of existing tools:
+ - dbginfo.sh: Add Docker debug data
+
+ Bug Fixes:
+ - lsdasd: Replace continue with return
+ - lscss: Allow to specify devices from subchannel set 3
+ - mon_fsstatd: Only use physical filesystems
+ - mon_fsstatd: Fix double free in error path
+ - mon_procd: Fix segmentation fault
+
+1.37.0
+ Added new tools:
+ - dump2tar: Add sysfs collection helper for dbginfo.sh
+
+ Changes of existing tools:
+ - build process: Add 'make help'
+ - build process: Add 'make D=1' for debugging
+ - build process: Add automatic dependency generation
+ - build process: Do echo also when overriding commands
+ - Added internal libraries:
+ * util_rec: Print records in different output formats
+ * util_libc: Handle standard errors for libc functions
+ * util_file: Read and write files
+ * util_scandir: Scan a directory for matching entries
+ * util_path: Work with paths
+ * util_opt: Parse the command line options
+ * util_prg: Print standard program messages
+ * util_panic: Collect FFDC data for unexpected errors
+ - qethconf: Remove check for OSN-device
+ - znetconf: Remove OSN-support
+ - lsdasd/tunedasd: Add channel path aware erp
+ - zcrypt: Add multi domain support for zcrypt device driver
+ - scm: Reimplement lsscm in C
+ - chp: Reimplement chchp and lschp in C
+ - dbginfo.sh: Make use of sysinfo collection helper
+
+ Bug Fixes:
+ - zfcpdbf: Only cap SAN short payload if pl_len exists
+ - chzdev: Fix bug when configuring QETH devices
+ - libu2s: Prevent buffer overflow
+ - ziomon: No blktrace kill which can corrupt kernel blktrace state
The diff regarding the manpage drops -f from the example, and also
removes the -f paragraph entirely, which documented it as deprecated, so
it looks pretty intentional anyway.
Looking at the s390-tools package (which provides s390-tools-udeb), and
its dasdfmt/dasdfmt.c, it seems that:
- 1.36.1-1 (stretch) supported -f;
- 2.3.0-2~deb10u1 (buster) doesn't;
- 2.15.1-2 (bullseye) doesn't.
So it might make sense to backport the fix to both bullseye and buster?
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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