Package: exfatprogs
Version: 1.2.9-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

When using Debian/trixie mkfs.exfat with no special options, it can create an
exFAT FS that is not readable by Windows 11. In my case, it was creating an
exFAT FS with sectore size 4096. Windows 11 would not recognize it as usable.
When I then formatted it using Windows 11, I noticed it used a sector size of
512. By specifying "mkfs.extfat -s 512 /dev/sdz" I was then able to create
an exFAT FS readable by Windows 11.

This issue has already been addressed upstream and is part of 1.3.0 (which is
in forky). The upstream fix is here:

https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/commit/d4f77ae41ce178c04b8e3326178554182ca94bd5

Applying this patch to 1.2.9-1 also fixes the issue. This may be something that
should be fixed in trixie, since it can be a major issue for some and (like me)
cost several hours to hunt down the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb13-rt-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages exfatprogs depends on:
ii  libc6  2.41-12

exfatprogs recommends no packages.

exfatprogs suggests no packages.

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