Bug#1049450: New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option

From	Elliott Mitchell <ehem+debianf@m5p.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1049450: New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option
Date	2023-08-16 20:40 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:57:16AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 04:13:59PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > Package: nfs-kernel-server
> > Version: 1:2.6.2-4
> > 
> > Hopefully SSIA.
> > 
> > `rpc.mountd` has a -N option to disable versions of NFS.
> > 
> > I had been previously using "-N 2", but that is now broken.  The error
> > message was quite non-helpful ("nfsd2" if I recall correctly).  Upon
> > removing "-N 2", luckily NFSv2 didn't get enabled, but this was still
> > annoying to deal with.  At worst using a deprecated setting should merely
> > generate a warning.
> 
> Removal of NFSv2 support was documented with a Debian NEWS entry for
> 1:2.6.1-1~exp1, cf. #1006650.
> 
> nfs-utils (1:2.6.1-1~exp1) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   Support for NFSv2 has been removed from nfs-kernel-server.  It was
>   previously disabled by default, but still available.
> 
>  -- Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:05:02 +0100

Removing NFSv2 support shouldn't invalidate "-N 2".  "-N 2" is supposed
to disable NFSv2 at runtime, as such removing all NFSv2 support should
merely render "-N 2" 100% redundant and at worst produce a warning.


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Bug#1049450: New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option Elliott Mitchell <ehem+debian@m5p.com> - 2023-08-16 01:40 +0200
  Bug#1049450: marked as done (New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2023-08-16 09:10 +0200
  Bug#1049450: New rpc.mountd rejects -N 2 option Elliott Mitchell <ehem+debianf@m5p.com> - 2023-08-16 20:40 +0200

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