Bug#599437: Upstream contacted to have details on bug fixed
Guillaume Delacour g...@iroqwa.org writes: First, I haven't managed to find a sponsor to upload versions since 0.5.1, this why the version in testing and unstable is quite far from upstream. That is unfortunate :-/ As the critical bug (at least) seems to be not very trivial to backport, the best is maybe to upload a new vesion. Testing is already in deep freeze[1]. I do not expect the release team to accept a new upstream release at this point, they would likely prefer backported patches (only those relevant to fix RC bugs, see the last announcement from the release team I linked to) or consider removal of the version currently in testing (that is not include gdisk in Squeeze). Uploading a newer version to unstable before having decided what to do with the package in testing will complicate things: fixes targeted at Squeeze might have to go through testing-proposed-updates and get less testing by users before arriving in the testing distribution. Please think about how you would like to proceed, you might also want to ask the release team (debian-rele...@lists.d.o). Regards, Ansgar [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/10/msg2.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#599437: Upstream contacted to have details on bug fixed
Hi, First, I haven't managed to find a sponsor to upload versions since 0.5.1, this why the version in testing and unstable is quite far from upstream. I already have contacted upstream to know the severity of known bugs between 0.5.1 and last 0.6.13. Here is his list: Critical bug fixed since 0.5.1: - segfault and/or produce corrupt partition tables on PowerPC (and probably other big-endian) CPUs (6699b01eda84d24bfaf80ad725304fef2b0e1b2a, 21 files changed). Importants bugs: - Added support for disks with other than 512-byte logical sectors. - Changed sector alignment policies to improve performance on Advanced Format disks and some hardware RAID arrays. - GUID generation improved; now technically correct, vs. just plain random in 0.5.1. - Some bad partition tables could produce segfaults. - Fixed backward interpretation of attributes. Moderate bugs : - Fixed a bug affecting the display of GUID values with some versions of GCC. - Improved handling of damaged GPT data structures. - Improved detection of problems with MBR data structures in the verify function. As the critical bug (at least) seems to be not very trivial to backport, the best is maybe to upload a new vesion. signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée
