[parted-devel] Parted Stuff that needs fixing before 1.8.9

[Joel Granados]

Hello list.

In my continuing effort to make 1.8.9 happen I have decided to make a
summary of what needs to be fixed for 1.8.9.  The idea is for 1.8.9 to
be released when all these issues have been resolved.  If I miss any
bugs issues that are important to someone, feel free to scream at me :)

Stuff for 1.8.9
1. Do not clobber the BootCode in GPT PMBRs
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/002473.html
    - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html

2. Patch: Fix gpt_read to read all of the partition entries correctly
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/002465.html
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt

3. [PATCH] fix for mklabel in parted
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/002739.html

4. [parted-devel] Error on resize FAT16 with 64k cluster
    - http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
    * This one needs testing.  There is a nice test in the link above.

5. Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition after fix
        partition order with fdisk
    - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-03/msg00009.html
    * This one needs testing.  The link above contains info.

6. [parted-devel] [PATCH] backlist md devices from device list
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002781.html

7. [parted-devel] [PATCH] document that primary keyword is not supported on sun label
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002782.html

8. New Italian PO file for 'parted' (version 1.8.8)
    - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-01/msg00010.html
    * This one needs no action.  bootstrap takes care of this
      automatically 

9. ignore the filesystem
    - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-02/msg00009.html
    * It needs testing.  No testing available AFAIK.

10. parted detects reiserfs root partition as linux-swap
    - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-05/msg00006.html
    * Also needs test and has no patch.  I think its worth
      investigating.

Stuff that I think should go in the next branch
1. [PATCH] Initial btrfs support, only recognize it for now
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-March/002741.html

2. [parted-devel] please support m68k atari partitioning
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-March/002743.html

3. [parted-devel] [ PATCH ] extended attributes support on ext2 and ext3 filesystem
    - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002777.html
    * This is something to look at.  More specifically: 
      a. Does the patch included in that mail increase the ext{2,3}
         detection capabilities in parted?
      b. Does that patch include more code than we are comfortable with
         (having in mind that we want to move away from fs handling)?
      c. Would separating the useful stuff (detection only) from the
         other stuff be worth it?


Thats my list.  I have some additional fedora bugs that I have not
tackled yet.  Those Will go in the list eventually.


Regards.
-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.