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Bug#422005: marked as done (ITA: pmount -- mount removable devices as normal user)

Your message dated Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:32:26 +0000
with message-id <E1HyD2Q-0002zt-QT@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#422005: fixed in pmount 0.9.13-3
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Package: wnpp

Hello,

three years ago I wrote pmount ("policy mount") to get a small and
pretty secure backend for automatically mounting removable devices as
normal user without fstab entries:

|Description: mount removable devices as normal user
| pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal
| users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This
| provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project
| and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.
| .
| This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some
| information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes
| them to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this
| feature.
| .
| If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to
| transparently mount encrypted volumes.

However, since hal 0.5.8 got a reasonably secure architecture, it
obsoleted pmount by and large, since the world moves to dbus and
hal-based solutions.

However, there are some people and projects which want to use pmount
without the overhead of dbus and hal, so I don't want to ask for
removal right away, but rather for someone who still uses it and wants
to adopt it (as both upstream and Debian maintainer).

It currently has some bug reports; most of them aren't major issues,
but there are some reports about not working on latest kernels,
and there is a small but steady stream of feature enhancements and
patch contributions. For adopting this you should have some experience
with writing safe C programs and know a bit about sysfs and block
devices. The code is really clean and without major external
dependencies and should stay that way (at least for the core pmount
which is suid root; wrappers like pmount-hal can be a bit more
liberal).

If someone is interested in this, I am happy to show him around in the
code and bzr tree, and I'm also happy to check and sponsor uploads
from non-DDs.

Thanks,

Martin

-- 
Martin Pitt        http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer   http://www.ubuntu.com
Debian Developer   http://www.debian.org

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Source: pmount
Source-Version: 0.9.13-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pmount, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

pmount_0.9.13-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.13-3.diff.gz
pmount_0.9.13-3.dsc
  to pool/main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.13-3.dsc
pmount_0.9.13-3_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.13-3_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 422005@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> (supplier of updated pmount package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:33:20 +0200
Source: pmount
Binary: pmount
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.9.13-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>
Changed-By: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>
Description: 
 pmount     - mount removable devices as normal user
Closes: 422005
Changes: 
 pmount (0.9.13-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New maintainer (closes: #422005)
   * Added debian/watch with new alioth project files
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2, no changes
Files: 
 4a0d9c8f580cb77c96052a403e3d0432 649 utils optional pmount_0.9.13-3.dsc
 45e76af8ddf9f225541bbb306277baad 6505 utils optional pmount_0.9.13-3.diff.gz
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