[parted-devel] gnulibify, and auto-modernize (partially), etc.

[Jim Meyering]

Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:
>
>>>> Yes, I've done that.
>>>> Will post soon.
>>
>> First, a summary:
>>
>>     #lines  name
>>     $ wc -l patches-master/*
>>         383 patches-master/01-auto-update-and-gnulibify
>>          59 patches-master/02-Makefile-use-gnulib
>>          37 patches-master/03-include-config.h--wo-dot-dot-slash-prefix
>>         102 patches-master/04-stdout-write-error-vs-parted
>>          30 patches-master/05-get-LOCALEDIR-definition-the-new-way
>>         337 patches-master/06-always-include-config.h
>>          90 patches-master/07-detect-test-label-failure
>>         263 patches-master/08-m4-dir
>>       63071 patches-master/09-remove-generated
>>          23 patches-master/10-avoid-gcc-format-warning
>>        1101 patches-master/11-gitignore-files
>>         113 patches-master/12-stdout-write-error-vs-partprobe
>>          13 patches-master/series
>>       65622 total
>>
>> Needless to say, I'm omitting the bulk of the 60k-line patch, #09.
>> I've even omitted the diffs corresponding to the deletions
>> (400+ lines each) of doc/C/po/parted.8.pot and
>> doc/pt_BR/parted.8.pt_BR.po in #11.  But even so, it's still
>> 50KB, so I've compressed it, in case there's a 40KB limit on
>> message size like on the other list.
>>
>> Note that #12 is new, but very similar to #4.
>
> Jim, commit those changes on the master branch. David and I  will
> review them for stable as soon as possible.

I tried, but it looks like there's a permissions problem:

  Unpacking 103 objects
  unable to create temporary sha1 filename ./objects/obj_PR5eBf: Permission denied
  fatal: failed to write object
  unpack unpacker exited with error code
  ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)