Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Fix flags processing to avoid bogus read-only export

[Alex Bligh <alex@...872...>]

On 5 May 2016, at 09:59, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:

>> If people are OK about this, how do I get this upstream?
> 
> Well, I'm not going to release updated upstream versions of this, and
> the most recent version of nbd doesn't expose the bug.

Sure, it's already fixed upstream :-)

> However, having
> that patch in distributions which still ships and older version of nbd
> does sure sound like a good idea.

Cool.

>> I'm happy to file an Ubuntu bug but I'm wondering if Wouter is the
>> Debian maintainer, and indeed whether we (I?) can simply push it as a
>> branch.
> 
> I am the Debian maintainer, yes. What kind of branch do you mean,
> though?

There are branches called 'debian-wheezy', 'debian-jessie' etc.,
though I don't know what they do.

I suppose I was thinking
   git checkout debian-jessie
   git checkout -b debian-jessie-fixed
   git am /path/to/patch
   git push

Ultimately I don't much care, just that the patch should be somewhere
in git I would have thought.

But as you are Debian maintainer, and nbd maintainer, I think you
probably know better than me how to do this.

> I'm thinking it does make sense to push an update to Debian Jessie for
> this, too. It's a bit of an ugly bug.

Great.

Re Ubuntu, I filed an ubuntu bug, and Robbie Basak (Ubuntu) has
volunteered on IRC to sponsor an SRU to update Trusty.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nbd/+bug/1578185

I'm happy to shepherd this through the Ubuntu process. If
the Debian and Ubuntu packages are identical or near identical,
I'll work off your proposed update, rather than putting my
own patch on that bug.

-- 
Alex Bligh