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

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:29:18AM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> retitle 298020 parted: hfs(+) support is still poorly documented
> tags 298020 +patch
> thanks
> 
> I'm retitling to the bug to its original title, since in fact the info
> manual is still affected. Jens Schmalzings patch from bug #275650 was
> incomplete and incorrect.

Ok.

> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:30:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > now Sarge's frozen (whoohoo!) and it's time to fix remaining issues with
> > > packages in Sarge. What about picking up this item, too?
> > 
> > Huh, never even noticed. ... goes reading d-d-a, ... well, ok yes it is
> > frozen.
> 
> :-)
> 
> > Doens't change a thing as regard to parted though, as it was frozen in august.
> 
> Ah. I guess it's part of d-i? I'm not familiar with d-i organization. 

It is producing a .udeb, yes, and furthermore, it is part of base or standard.

> > Don't know, i didn't really had plans to do a new parted upload, but was
> > intenting to upload a experimental version with HFS+ journaling resize
> > support. Worked fine when i did so on sunday.
> 
> That's nice to hear (although it doesn't effect Sarge).

Who cares about sarge at this time :)

> > > If you still feel burdened with higher-priority tasks, please say so and
> > > I will try to make a patch happen, somehow. *sigh* 
> > 
> > Please provide a patch. Or better speak with K.G. and make one happen upstream
> > that i can backport.
> 
> Well, originally, the bug referred to the package description(s) for the
> most part, so it was Debian specific... And I still don't know who's K.G.
> :-) AFAICS Andrew Clausen is upstream, though seeking for a new
> maintainer. 

K.G is the upstream author of the hfs resizing patch. Andrew Clausen is
searching an upstream replacement, and as far as i know, only myself proposed,
but i am not sure i am the right person, since i don't know how much time i
will be able to dvote to it.

> However, I just checked out upstream parted 1.6.22, which merged the HFS+
> patch, and diff'ed the docs against 1.6.21. It was pretty easy to
> extract the changes to the documentation wrt HFS+. They are fully
> appliciable to the HFS support of Debian's parted 1.6.21. So there's no
> need to bother upstream. I've added fixes to the debian/control file
> and README.Debian; please review the attached patch.  It applies against
> the patched source.

Notice though that the upstream changes in documentation where done after i
suggested it to K.G after you submited the bug report, if i remember the
timing involved well.

> Note that the patch excludes parted.info, which is part of the source
> package for some reason, but should be (is?) an automatically generated
> file, of course. 

Ok.

> > > Better make things not perfect than not doing things at all. 
> > 
> > Well, parted is frozen since forever, and the version in rc3 is the last one.
> 
> Hmm. A documentation-only upload should be possible, right?

Yep. But we will see. I will look at this this WE, and thanks for the patch.

Friendly,

Sven Luther