[Parted-maintainers] Bug#298020: parted: hfs(+) support is still poorly documented

[Sven Luther]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:23:25AM +0100, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> > > Package: parted
> > > Version: 1.6.11-8
> > 
> > Please try parted 1.6.21-1, which is now in testing/unstable.
> 
> No difference in the documentation regarding hfs(plus). 
> 
> > > the info manual has been updated (see Bug #275650), but the package
> > > description(s) *ouch!* and README.Debian still say parted does not support
> > > HFS(plus) resizing. 
> > 
> > There is a bunch of changes in the upcoming 1.6.22 which includes the HFS
> > patch in the upstream tree, will see once this is released what we can do, if
> > not, patches are welcome. 
> 
> I think the documentation should be fixed in Sarge. Will Sarge release
> with parted 1.6.22?  

possibly, if not i will backport the fix.

> HFS is _the_ native PPC filesystem. Parted's package description really
> should be in sync with its major features.  Why wait for 1.6.22 anyway? 
> It's fairly trivial to fix that.
> 
> > Even better, please check the parted CVS tree at
> > alioth (its the upstream one), 
> 
> Only debian/{control,README.Debian} are affected, it has nothing to do
> with upstream.

Oh, i misunderstood.

sorry, will apply it, feel free to send me a patch against those, would make
things easier for me.

Friendly,

Sven Luther