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

[Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 06:00:37PM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> 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?

I thought I'd done this long ago, but a quick checks shows that I
didn't. Yes, it is still desirable. I'll work on it soon.

-- 
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       people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
       and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
 -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12