Hello Steve Langasek. Thanks for your bug report...
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:14:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] > The Ubuntu kernel team recently discovered a longstanding bug in > util-linux's handling of $PATH in mkfs when calling mkfs.$fstype helpers: a > stray \n at the end of a sprintf call corrupts the last directory name in > the list, causing helpers located in this directory to not be found. > > This bug has been present upstream since util-linux 2.8, but only recently > became apparent by a combination of btrfs-tools moving its helper from /sbin > to /bin, and the kernel team using a minimal environment. > > * debian/patches/no-newline-in-path.patch: mkfs: Don't append newline > to $PATH variable. Closes LP: #1474473. [...] The code has already been reworked upstream, please see (and feel free to make sure this resolves your issue): http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/disk-utils/mkfs.c?id=07b5156790f329835d7351aa4e803f3d623cde5d The btrfs-tools moving binaries around (without compat symlinks!) was obviously not tested and even after maintainer was alerted about the introduced breakage nothing seems to have improved.... Apparently that means this is not an urgent issue (atleast to btrfs-tools maintainers). v2.27 is about to be release in august AFAIK (so it'll probably be something I look at as soon as I'm back from vacation or during debconf). Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
