On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:43:27PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:22:42PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Speaking of which, I would like to upload parted 2.2 to unstable (it's > > currently in experimental) once 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 reaches testing. > > The reason to try to get this into squeeze is that without it we won't > > properly support "Advanced Format" (i.e. >512-byte logical sectors) hard > > drives, which are becoming increasingly common. There is an ABI > > transition involved, among the following source packages (maintainers > > CCed): > > There are (at least) two qt packages involved, so that should be done before > the qt transition starts.
OK, what kind of timeline are we talking about? Luk said "not yet" a few days ago, although I wasn't clear what he was waiting for (not that I minded, I don't need to know the fine details). > So with 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 theoretically every source package could > switch its build-dep to libparted-dev already? Or are those supposed to > use the precise version as they do now? (I.e. in the current state they > are not binNMU-able.) If the release team prefers that, I don't mind as such - but note that it's quite likely that several of these source packages will want to use API introduced more recently than 1.8.8 (the alignment handling functions), so just "libparted-dev" seems a little too imprecise really? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
