[parted-devel] Bug: Removal of BLKPG causes regression of ability to manipulate disks with other partitions in use

[Phillip Susi]

It seems that Hans de Goede ( CCing ) removed support for the BLKPG
ioctls instead of BLKRRPART on 2009-08-28 according to the ChangeLog.
This prevents using parted to manipulate partitions on disks where other
partitions are in use on Linux, which worked in parted 1.8.  Related
bugs are:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/parted/+bug/540940
http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/253

Why was this support removed, and is it possible to have it put back?