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

[A Costa]

Package: parted
Version: 1.6.24-1
Followup-For: Bug #298020


The docs may have been improved with regards to 'hfs', but
contradictions exist.

It says in 'README.Debian', (other file systems omitted):

    Filesystem      |        Supported Operations
                    |detect |create |resize | copy  | check
    ----------------|-------|-------|-------|-------|--------
    hfs             | *     |       |       |       |

Whereas '/usr/share/info/parted.info.gz' from 'parted-doc' 
says, (other file systems omitted):

    6.1 File Systems Supported by GNU Parted
    ========================================
    
    Filesystem   detect   create   resize   copy   check
    hfs          *        *        *


Another problem, 'changelog.Debian' says the manpage was improved:

    78-parted (1.6.21-1) unstable; urgency=low
    87:    - Added mention of HFS and HFS+ resize feature in manpage. (Bug: #275650)

Where?  The manpage doesn't contain the string 'hfs':

    % zgrep --ignore-case HFS /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz; echo $?
    1

Maybe some patches were misplaced?


Hope this helps...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.6-13               1.6.24-1   The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline4                  4.3-15     GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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