On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:47:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >reassign 683309 loop-aes-utils >severity 683309 serious >thanks > >On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 05:57:42PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Since the move to remove /etc/mtab and link it to /proc/mounts, loop >> mounts no longer clean up the used loopback devices after unmount. It >> seems the loopback code in mount/unmount needs the information in mtab >> to do this automatically. > >After discussion with Steve on IRC, it turns out that this is due >to using loop-aes-utils. This package does not use libmount, and >so breaks due to trying to modify /etc/mtab (which has been a >symlink for some time). All wheezy and later systems have /etc/mtab >as a symlink, making libmount a requirement. loop-aes-utils must >use libmount for wheezy. > >Given that loop-aes-utils is a fork of util-linux-ng from (it appears) >2009 from the NEWS file, it may be possible to merge in the subsequent >util-linux-ng changes. Which would be a good idea anyway.
I've looked at loop-aes-utils since, and it's *way* behind current util-linux as you say. If we wanted to keep it in the archive, the best way forwards would probably be to throw away the existing package and re-patch util-linux. That would be a smaller diff than patching forwards loop-aes-utils. However, I've worked out a way to replace my own usage of loop-aes with cryptsetup and dmcrypt anyway; I'm not going to spend any time saving loop-aes myself. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
