On 22 Aug 2008, at 8:11 am, Meelis Roos wrote:
Package: am-utils
Version: 6.1.5-10
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Since 2.6.25-rc* vanilla kernels, am-utils has stopped working. Some
debugging reveals that it's a problem with mount version. Since
Debian is
using 2.6.26 already, this is a real issue.
am-utils uses kernel headers to get kernels supported mount version
(currently 6 in kernel). However, am-utils actually supports only
version
4 of the mount protocol and fails to fill in 'pseudoflavor' and
'context'
fields. am-utils should either use hardcoded mount version 4
That should be easy to do - there's a localconfig.h file I use to
override a lot of what the configure script does or does not find
already, and I suspect we can do the right thing with that. I will
investigate that when I get home - I'm on vacation at the moment.
or (better) be
updated to mount protocol 6.
There are workarounds to this; one of which is to use autofs rather
than nfs in your amd.conf file. Thus I'm not sure that grave is the
right severity for this bug.
Unfortunately, it's looking very unlikely that upstream are ever going
to fix this properly. There has been no word from the am-utils
development people for nearly a year; and certainly not since this
first raised its head with 2.6.24 kernels (have a look through the
other bugs against am-utils - this has already been reported and
explained, but not fixed yet. I'll be merging this bug once I'm back
from my vacation). Bottom line is, I think the am-utils project is
dead. I will probably try telephoning Erez Zadok, the upstream
author, and see if I can get some authoritative word out of him about
the future of the project.
If you already have a patch for it to make it support mount protocol
6, please do supply it to me, and I'll pass it back upstream.
Regards,
Tim Cutts
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