Bug#823517: jessie-pu: package nbd/1:3.8-4+deb8u3

[Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 04:43:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> There is a forward-compatibility bug in nbd-client <= 3.9, in that it
> incorrectly merges two flags fields when sending flags to the kernel.
> The result of this bug is that all exports exported by nbd-server >= 3.9
> and connected to by nbd-client <= 3.9 are all marked as read-only on the
> client side.
> 
> I would like to update the package in Jessie to remedy the issue, so
> that upon the release of Stretch, clients running Jessie can still talk
> to servers running Stretch.

Is this still desired or should the bug be closed?

Thanks,

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Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw@debian.org
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