[Parted-maintainers] Bug#284081: New parted api, and possibility for parted 1.6.x (x>12) in debian/sarge ...

[Colin Watson]

Package: python-parted
Version: 0.11.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> The 1.6.12 parted version includes a API change, and thus a bumping of the
> libraries soname. The change came that the old head/sector/cylinder values are
> split into a hw_geometry (as read from disk) and a bios_geometry) structure,
> which then holds the new CHS values. The idea is that hw_geometry is what is
> read from disk, and bios_geometry is what is infered from the bios or existing
> dos/windows partitions.

Here's a patch that updates python-parted to the new libparted API
(written on work time for Canonical):

  http://people.ubuntulinux.org/patches/python-parted.new-libparted.diff

I'd like to include this in Ubuntu rather soon, since our python-parted
package is currently uninstallable. Could you at least let me know
fairly quickly whether you approve of the API changes I've made to
python-parted? Ideally they could be uploaded to Debian experimental
relatively soon.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]