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

[A. Costa]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:25:03 +0200
Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Notice that in the current state of things, the debian package doesn't support
> reiserfs anymore, ...

That's a valid point; well, I had known about and even thought of that,
since I'm kind of a fan of Reiser on his technical merits even though
he's currently in what seems like a needless feud with some Debian
luminaries.

However, unofficial Debian reiser packages seem to exist, as the
'parted' package description says:

 Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install
 the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been
 removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the
 default package.

...and the info page mentions 'reiserfs' dozens of times.  And a lot of
Debian users, (and Debian variants or offshoots), use reiser, -- for
example 'reiserfs' is one of the default file systems on this 'Mepis'
LiveCD** I have, etc. etc.

(**yes, before anyone mentions it, Mepis is somewhat proprietary, and
may not be the best example of this sort of thing.  It's just I haven't
tried every Debian based LiveCD out there, and that's the first one
that came to mind.)

To leave out mention of reiser on principle would logically require
editing the 'info' page too I reckon, which I doubt anyone wants to
do.  So for all those reasons it made sense (in my view) to include it
in the man page also.

Suggested compromise:  how about I add a paragraph to the man page
cautioning Debian users about reiserfs' current not officially
supported status?