Bug#755434: pmount: please support exfat filesystem (via fuse)

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Package: pmount
Version: 0.9.99-alpha-1
Severity: wishlist

hi,

please support the exfat filesystem, using exfat-fuse (and exfat-utils)
if installed.

thanks,

bernd


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pmount depends on:
ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.8
ii libc6 2.19-1

pmount recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pmount suggests:
ii cryptsetup 2:1.6.4-4

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pmount.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

[Marvin Renich]

tags 755434 patch
thanks

Vincent Danjean added a patch in his msg on 25 Dec 2016. I'm setting
the appropriate tag, and adding my "please apply this patch" to the bug
report.

Many thanks for maintaining this package, as well as (hopefully) adding
this patch!

...Marvin

[Vincent Fourmond]

Oops, looks like I completely missed the patch.

I'll review/apply ASAP, but I need to wait until my updated key is
back in the keyring.

Thanks for your patience,

Vincent

Post by Marvin Renich
tags 755434 patch
thanks
Vincent Danjean added a patch in his msg on 25 Dec 2016. I'm setting
the appropriate tag, and adding my "please apply this patch" to the bug
report.
Many thanks for maintaining this package, as well as (hopefully) adding
this patch!
...Marvin

[Marvin Renich]

Post by Vincent Fourmond
Oops, looks like I completely missed the patch.
I'll review/apply ASAP, but I need to wait until my updated key is
back in the keyring.
Thanks for your patience,

No problem.

I had prepared an almost identical patch before looking to see if there
was already a bug. My patch included a change to src/pmount.c at line
365:

- else if(! strcmp(fsname, "vfat") && fs->iocharset_format) {
+ else if((!strcmp(fsname, "vfat") || !strcmp(fsname, "exfat")) && fs->iocharset_format) {

It seems to be a workaround for a bug in mount specific to vfat, so it
is probably unnecessary. But I thought I would mention it, in case it
jogs your memory about why that test was added.

...Marvin

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Hi,

any news on this bug? Would be pretty awesome to have exfat support
in pmount for buster.

Thanks,

Bernd

[V***@csiro.au]

Hi,

this package never got migrated to salsa, I think it is dead upstream.

The archived git is here
https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/pmount/pmount.git.tar.xz
https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/pmount/pmount-debian.git.tar.xz

I've attached a debdiff of what I had to do with the stretch package
source to get it working.

Cheers
Vince

[Dmitry Bogatov]

Post by V***@csiro.au
this package never got migrated to salsa, I think it is dead upstream.
The archived git is here
https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/pmount/pmount.git.tar.xz
https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/pmount/pmount-debian.git.tar.xz
I've attached a debdiff of what I had to do with the stretch package
source to get it working.
[...]

Well, it works as-is for me. (pmount=0.9.23-3+b2) Dead upstream is sad,
by do we have replacement? If not, I would definitely object removal.

[Jennifer Morrow]

I also would prefer to stay on the maintained branch and have support for exFAT. Is there any way to see when the patch might get merged? It doesn’t look like support has been added since October 2019.

Currently using pmount 0.9.23 and wishing this little patch was forthcoming in a new release.
Sure, can apply the patch and build from source, but... would prefer to stay on the maintained branch.
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[Alexander Huemer]

The last update to this bug was made 3 (!) years ago.
Can we please finally have exfat support for pmount.

[Graham Inggs]

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

This was fixed upstream [1] (without mention in the ChangeLog), and
included in release 0.9.23.1 [2].


[1] https://github.com/MisterDA/pmount/commit/b05aa2191a4097c8f8cdccdd7ee52d983cdf0287
[2] https://github.com/MisterDA/pmount/releases/tag/v0.9.23.1