[Parted-maintainers] fdisk

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:35:27AM -0500, Harley D. Eades wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:25 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > I'm afraid I don't have time to help actively (other than testing it).  However,
> > if you need a platform for beta-testing, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a good place:
> > Because the "classical" util-linux fdisk is not available, any replacement is
> > welcome, even if it's not a mature, well-tested one.
> >
> > I suppose you could put it in trunk, but disable it by default?  If one could
> > build it using --enable-fdisk-ui or something, then the Debian package could be
> > selective and activate it for this platform.
> > 
> > What do you think about that?
> 
> If someone wants to build a debian package like this for your platform I would 
> have no argument against it.  It would be a nice way of testing our work as
> we are working on it.  Although it is in a stage of development, thus it
> will not go into trunk until our first release.

Ok.  Debian maintainers:  how do you feel about adding a "patchified" version
of this fdisk-ui frontend, and enabling it on (at least) GNU/kFreeBSD ?

-- 
Robert Millan