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.
Sorry for keeping this open so long (and thanks for poking me ;-)
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
