[parted-devel] [patch] Use 'p' partition separator only when necessary

[Phillip Susi]

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This seems to have fallen off the radar, so poking again.

On 03/29/2011 03:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
>> On 3/11/2011 5:12 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
>>> It seems that the behavior was copied from dmraid, which decided a while
>>> back to start adding the 'p' always.  Debian and Ubuntu have been
>>> carrying a patch to reverse that change to both dmraid and parted.
>>> Initially I got that patch dropped in Ubuntu during the Natty
>>> development cycle because we want to avoid diverging from upstream, and
>>> if the base device name ends in a digit, then you NEED the 'p' or
>>> various tools get confused about what is the disk name and what is the
>>> partition name.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Just touching base to check on this since it's been two weeks with no
>> response.
> 
> Sorry it's taking so long.
> If you had included a test suite addition,
> I probably would have pushed your patch long ago.
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