[parted-devel] 1.8.7 in the works

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 20:36 -0700, Matthew S. Harris wrote:
> On 4/23/07, David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Aside from those patches, I have the s390 stuff and 2048 write patches
> > to review before inclusion.  That's all I have on the table for 1.8.7.
> >
> > Reply on this thread for the things you want in the release.
> 
> In the "Trying to read ZFS-labelled disks with Parted thread", I sent
> a patch that I believe fixes some endianness bugs and also gets Parted
> closer to being able to read EFI disk labels generated by OpenSolaris.
>  I haven't received any feedback on the patch, but I would like to see
> at least the endianness fixes included in the stable release, if
> they're correct.
> 
> The other fixes would be nice to have (since I believe they're
> correct) but aren't urgent because they're not sufficient for reading
> Sun's EFI disk labels.  (I do have a local patch that does seem to be
> sufficient, but I don't yet understand why it works.)

I will try to look at the patch today.  Do you have copyright paperwork
completed with the Free Software Foundation?  That has to be done for us
to merge any patches contain significant work.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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