Package: gdisk Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: minor Package description says:
Description: GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning tool for Intel-based Linux that works on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on the more common (through 2009) Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables. . Please note that gdisk is still in beta version. Hovewer it is not true that gdisk is tool for Intel-based Linux. It works on all Debian architectures, and probably also not only Linux (other Unix systems, like Hurd and kFreeBSD, and maybe even more will also work). Also GPT is not restricted in anyway to Intel (or Intel-compatible) machines. By Intel I mean (and probably author of description also meaned) IA-32 and EMT64/AMD64, AMD clones, and other compatible hardware (VIA, etc.), this exludes IA-64 (Itanium), and other architectures. However of course GPT is independed of architecture, and similary gdisk program is quite portable, so it is also independed of architecture, and even operating system kernel, or even storage system (SATA, PATA, USB, iSCSI, SCSI, etc. etc.). AFAIK GPT is already used on some PowerPC and SPARC and ARM systems (some of them even nativly can boot from them). I also use it on Alpha architecture, mostly for use with big hard drives. I propose to remove words "for Intel-based Linux" completly. Remaining description is still valid and better describe what gdisk is. ;) Just my $0.02. Regards, Witek -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc6-t43-prod-00364-g9d037a7-dirty (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gdisk depends on: ii groff-base 1.21-6 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-11 ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 ii libpopt0 1.16-1 ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-11 ii libuuid1 2.19.1-5 gdisk recommends no packages. gdisk suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
