On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:29:18AM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote: > retitle 298020 parted: hfs(+) support is still poorly documented > tags 298020 +patch > thanks > > I'm retitling to the bug to its original title, since in fact the info > manual is still affected. Jens Schmalzings patch from bug #275650 was > incomplete and incorrect.
Ok. > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:30:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > now Sarge's frozen (whoohoo!) and it's time to fix remaining issues with > > > packages in Sarge. What about picking up this item, too? > > > > Huh, never even noticed. ... goes reading d-d-a, ... well, ok yes it is > > frozen. > > :-) > > > Doens't change a thing as regard to parted though, as it was frozen in > > august. > > Ah. I guess it's part of d-i? I'm not familiar with d-i organization. It is producing a .udeb, yes, and furthermore, it is part of base or standard. > > Don't know, i didn't really had plans to do a new parted upload, but was > > intenting to upload a experimental version with HFS+ journaling resize > > support. Worked fine when i did so on sunday. > > That's nice to hear (although it doesn't effect Sarge). Who cares about sarge at this time :) > > > If you still feel burdened with higher-priority tasks, please say so and > > > I will try to make a patch happen, somehow. *sigh* > > > > Please provide a patch. Or better speak with K.G. and make one happen > > upstream > > that i can backport. > > Well, originally, the bug referred to the package description(s) for the > most part, so it was Debian specific... And I still don't know who's K.G. > :-) AFAICS Andrew Clausen is upstream, though seeking for a new > maintainer. K.G is the upstream author of the hfs resizing patch. Andrew Clausen is searching an upstream replacement, and as far as i know, only myself proposed, but i am not sure i am the right person, since i don't know how much time i will be able to dvote to it. > However, I just checked out upstream parted 1.6.22, which merged the HFS+ > patch, and diff'ed the docs against 1.6.21. It was pretty easy to > extract the changes to the documentation wrt HFS+. They are fully > appliciable to the HFS support of Debian's parted 1.6.21. So there's no > need to bother upstream. I've added fixes to the debian/control file > and README.Debian; please review the attached patch. It applies against > the patched source. Notice though that the upstream changes in documentation where done after i suggested it to K.G after you submited the bug report, if i remember the timing involved well. > Note that the patch excludes parted.info, which is part of the source > package for some reason, but should be (is?) an automatically generated > file, of course. Ok. > > > Better make things not perfect than not doing things at all. > > > > Well, parted is frozen since forever, and the version in rc3 is the last > > one. > > Hmm. A documentation-only upload should be possible, right? Yep. But we will see. I will look at this this WE, and thanks for the patch. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]