[Parted-maintainers] Re: rc2 status update

Sven Luther sven.luther@wanadoo.fr
Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:52:46 +0100


On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:45:06AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:40:41PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> >  - A new parted is available fixing MS-DOS idisk label detection when
> >    Smart BootManager is installed. It's not yet built on sparc, and
> >    will need some testing.
> 
> I didn't realise we needed the new parted. On some architectures it
> depends on libreadline5, which we may well not be letting into sarge
> because it's causing problems at the moment.

Andreas Barth just made me aware of this problem (Actually not a problem of
parted, but caused by the new libreadline5 upload). I am preparing a new
upload with the correct dependency, and will upload before dinstall today.

> Could a new version please be uploaded that build-depends on
> libreadline4-dev rather than libreadline-dev, so that we don't get
> random dependencies based on whatever the buildd feels like choosing?

Yep.

Friendly,

Sven Luther