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

[Jim Meyering]

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.