Bug#790060: jessie-pu: nbd update?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:21:02PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 19:07 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > #785727 describes a regression in the version of nbd-server in jessie
> > wrt the one in wheezy, related to the "allow" configuration file. It's
> > not a security-related bug (as it disallows more than it should), but
> > it's still a problem.
> >
> > I'm not sure how often the "allow" feature is used, however, and if the
> > file is not in use, nbd-server will work perfectly well. It provides
> > additional functionality above a firewall if someone would like to allow
> > access to some, but not all, exports from a particular range of IP
> > addresses; but beyond that, it's not very important.
> >
> > Is this something that would warrant a stable update?
>
> Potentially, but a) the metadata for #785727 implies that the bug
> currently affects the version of nbd in unstable, which would need
> resolving first
Only because I'm lazy and didn't fix the metadata; the bug does not actually
affect unstable, and the patch that's sent to the bug in
<20150601152240.GC9268@lemon.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> came from the 3.8..3.9 git
history. I just updated the metadata.
> and b) we'd want to see a full debdiff for a package
> built and tested on jessie in order to confirm.
Okay, I'll work on that then.
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