ntfs-3g: abi breakage

[Rainer Rohde]

== Testcase ==
Packages in raring should depend on libntfs-3g84

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This happens when running testdisk or photorec. Worked perfectly fine a few days ago.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: testdisk 6.13-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-6.13-generic 3.8.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 15 13:20:01 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: testdisk
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It looks like the ntfs-3g package is improperly versioned. It was at major rev 835 in quantal, and is now at major rev 84. I think this is upstream incorrect versioning and we're going to have to add a debian epoch with proper ABI versioning.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I have followed up to the Debian bug with a more correct version of events. In the meantime we should rebuild testdisk against the new library ABI anyway, to get things working again ASAP.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ntfs-3g - 1:2013.1.13-1+0ubuntu1

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ntfs-3g (1:2013.1.13-1+0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Use a virtual package to generate tighter reverse-dependencies, as the
    soname is ever-changing. (LP: #1126547)
  * Use parallel build.
  * Acknowledge stealing debian's -1 upload version number.
  * Fix libntfs-3g.so symlink.
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:45:13 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package testdisk - 6.13-1ubuntu2

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testdisk (6.13-1ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * No change rebuild against ntfs-3g84. (LP: #1126547)
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:56:46 +0000

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

Confirmed. All is working again. Thanks.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Partclone was also affected by this. It should just need a no-change upload to rebuild against the fixed ntfs-3g.

[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

partclone.ntfs is still affected by this bug. Looks like a partclone.ntfs packaging issue, but I don't see a new bug created following Phillip's comment above.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Rainer, or anyone else affected,

Accepted partclone into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partclone/0.2.51-1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

All builds gained dependency on libntfs-3g84 in Raring SRU.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package partclone - 0.2.51-1ubuntu1.1

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partclone (0.2.51-1ubuntu1.1) raring; urgency=low

  * No change rebuild against ntfs-3g, due to abi break. (LP: #1126547)
 -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:42:07 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[TRAORE (tobien-h)]

Thanks all...

[efa (efa)]

16.06 xenial show same error with mkntfs:

mkntfs: error while loading shared libraries: libntfs-3g.so.85: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Shared object installed in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ by the ntfs-3g (2015) package are:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2017-01-28 17:54 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libntfs-3g.so.861 -> libntfs-3g.so.861.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321992 2017-01-28 17:54 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libntfs-3g.so.861.0.0

Adding a link from libntfs-3g.so.85 to libntfs-3g.so.861.0.0

generate an incompatible SO version. So the Ubuntu package is built with wrong settings

[efa (efa)]

I haven't found ppa with ntfs-3g (2017.3.23) for xenial.
Building ntfs-3g (2017.3.23) from sources, build well. I keep binaries in my PATH

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

@efa: if you have a problem with ntfs-3g in xenial you should better open a new bug instead of commenting on a 5 year old issue that has been closed 5 releases before xenial existed.