Bug#823517: jessie-pu: package nbd/1:3.8-4+deb8u3
Control: tags -1 + pending
On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 09:29 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:06:17AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Built package is in incoming. Not sure why I didn't do it earlier, as
> the patch was right there. Oh well.
Flagged for acceptance.
Regards,
Adam
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