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

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:05:56PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> Hi Sven,
> 
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> Ah, I darkly remember Joeyh being mad at you for a late parted upload.
> :-/

Yeah.

> > 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.
> 
> Oh, really! I'd think twice about that. :-)

Yep, but nobody else seems to be interested, so ...

> > > > 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.
> 
> Please think about contacting debian-boot and/or -release _before_ doing
> so. No need to stir up the same mess again. :-)

Well, i will upload it to unstable, they can always think about it not moving
it to sarge, or whatever, but as i understand, it is only a documentation
update.

> I've prepared a second, cumulative patch, it's attached. 
> It removes the wrong claim that hfs volumes can be moved, updates a link
> to libreiserfs, and introduces a short separate section about parted's
> hfs support, derived from the docs included with Guillaume's patch. 

Ok, thanks.

Friendly,

Sven Luther