Phillip Susi wrote: > This seems to have fallen off the radar, so poking again. > > On 03/29/2011 03:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Phillip Susi wrote: >>> On 3/11/2011 5:12 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: >>>> It seems that the behavior was copied from dmraid, which decided a while >>>> back to start adding the 'p' always. Debian and Ubuntu have been >>>> carrying a patch to reverse that change to both dmraid and parted. >>>> Initially I got that patch dropped in Ubuntu during the Natty >>>> development cycle because we want to avoid diverging from upstream, and >>>> if the base device name ends in a digit, then you NEED the 'p' or >>>> various tools get confused about what is the disk name and what is the >>>> partition name. >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> Just touching base to check on this since it's been two weeks with no >>> response. >> >> Sorry it's taking so long. >> If you had included a test suite addition, >> I probably would have pushed your patch long ago.
Thanks for the reminder. Can you write a test to exercise that patch, now? IMHO, any significant bug-fix or change in parted should be accompanied by a test suite addition that exercises it.
