Bug#392767: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#392767: parted and GNU/kFreeBSD (Re: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.)

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:48:35AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:14:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm sorry.  Please feel free to disable the patch; I'm thinking it was not a
> > > good idea to apply it in the package before it was merged upstream (as it was
> > > about to, last time I visited this).
> > > 
> > > Apologises for the hassle.
> > 
> > No problem, i am happy we found it before the release though.
> > 
> > Will you be able to work out a better/cleaner patch ? And work with us to
> > merge it upstream ?
> 
> The patch isn't mine;  I grabbed it from upstream while it was in the process of
> being merged.  Its author was already working with upstream for a merge at that
> time, and I sent him my input to ensure the patch works on GNU/kFreeBSD as well
> as FreeBSD.

Who is upstream about this ? 

> For the debian side, I think it's safer to pull it from upstream when it's time
> to.  I don't want to risk having further problems.

Well, i reviewed and applied the freebsd only part of it, which seems pretty
safe, and it was in debian since may anyway, so ...

Upload will go to unstable today.

Friendly,

Sven Luther