[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#975003: mount refuses to mount cifs from fstab with Unknown mount option "symfollow"

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: reassign -1 cifs-utils

Reassigning to cifs-utils, as mount.cifs probably needs updating for
this.

* mc36 <mc36 at freemail.hu> [201117 21:09]:
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.36.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> i rebooted my sid today and noticed that my cifs mounts from fstab not came up.
> dmesg indicates " Unknown mount option "symfollow" ".
> manually mounting them (sudo mount.cifs //mount /point -o opts) did the trick.
> nevertheless to note that it's the first time this happened.
> 
> [   50.143880] CIFS: Attempting to mount //devel.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
> [   50.143902] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
> [   50.146561] CIFS: Attempting to mount //nas.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
> [   50.146578] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)