[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#576314: Bug#576314: New upstream cifs-utils 4.3 version available

[André Wöbbeking]

On Monday 14 June 2010, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:38:39AM +0200, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > On Monday 14 June 2010, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > > 
> > > I tried the Sid package (4.5-1 and -2) in Squeze and mounting as user
> > > gives me
> > > 
> > > Couldn't chdir to $HOME/mnt: Permission denied
> > 
> > If I give more permissions to the directory containing the mount point I
> > get:
> > 
> > mount.cifs: permission denied: no match for $HOME/mnt found in /etc/fstab
> > 
> > I think this is about user mounts so why do I need entries in /etc/fstab?
> 
> This is documented in NEWS.Debian in the cifs-utils package.
> 
> It was a bug that fstab entries with the 'user' option set would not work.
> It's an upstream design decision that user mounts not specified in
> /etc/fstab don't work.

But:

cifs-utils (2:4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Set mount.cifs suid-root, again supported upstream and required for use
    in user mounts.  Closes: #576713.

So there should be no need for fstab anymore, right?

Could you please also reply to my other mail?