On 27 Feb 2011, at 14:43, David Stone wrote: > I have just upgraded a system to squeeze, and found that because of > this bug the system is unusable (I have home directories mounted using > am-utils.) > > Manually installing the wheezy version fixes things > (am-utils_6.2+rc20101201-1_i386.deb, > libamu4_6.2+rc20101201-1_i386.deb). > > It would seem to me that this bug is one which should be fixed in a > minor release of squeeze (it makes the package unusable, and the fix > doesn't involve a cascade of other packages, just the two).
... and both those packages come from the same source package. > I don't > understand the process for suggesting this, and am hoping this e-mail > is a sensible way of requesting it. I'm the current am-utils maintainer for Debian, but I'm afraid I don't really know how to do this either. They may not accept it, because it's an upstream version change. They might, conceivably, accept another 6.1.5 release, if I could make that work. I'll see if I can find out what their policy is. am-utils is essentially a dead project upstream, with no stable release now for more than five years. It's a steadily harder and harder issue to fix as the Linux kernel moves on but am-utils does not. There are discussions in the Fedora world about recent kernels which look like they completely break the autofs code in am-utils (because am-utils uses autofs3, and that was removed from Linux in 2.6.38, apparently) It's probably another nail in am-utils' coffin... I maintain it because we used to use it at work, but we finally got fed up with these issues and switched to using pure autofs4 instead. Regards, Tim Regards, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
