bad mke2fs behavior on sparc

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.17-1
Architecture: sparc
Severity: critical

Latest mke2fs zeroes the first sector of the partition is is formating.
It is really bad on sparc when the partition starts at sector 0 because it
kills the partition table :((
I took a quick look into e2fsprogs sources: it seems to be aware of this case
because I saw the next lines in the code:

#ifndef sparc
#define ZAP_BOOTBLOCK
#endif

Since the compiled program does not work like expected, it could be a
compilation problem.  Could be because sparc macro is not define anymore ?

Who has compiled the latest e2fsprogs for sparc ?  Could you work on this
problem?

Thanks in advance.

PS: I cc: it to debian-sparc.

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