[Parted-maintainers] Bug#440675: support for parted1.8

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:51:34PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> I finally got around to cleanup the patch for parted1.8. This adds two
> things against current parted git:
> 
> 0001-linux-device-mapper-map-type-detection.patch: detect the device map
> type and store it in the device structure. This changes the size of the
> structure so we might have to bump the so name. This feature is useful
> in general since people might want to now what type of device they're
> acting on. The type is display within parted too.
Any comments on this? I'd really like to get all udebs needed for
multipath into shape for d-i beta 2. We have patches for parted1.7 and
parted1.8 now, so even if we don't switch to parted1.8 yet, can we have
a patches 1.7?
Cheers,
 -- Guido