[Parted-maintainers] Bug#512751: Bug#512751: gnu-fdisk: new upstream version 1.2 available

[Xavier Oswald]

On 12:53 Fri 23 Jan     , Michael Prokop wrote:

Hi,

> Upstream released version 1.2:
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fdisk/2009-01/msg00003.html

I know.

You maybe missed my reply on the parted development mailing list.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/002525.html

> As stated in the changelog this release addresses several bugs from
> Debian's BTS: #445304 #463720 #504747 #511035

Yes, that's great !

> As #504747 seems to be the reason why gnu-fdisk was removed from
> testing (http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnu-fdisk/news/20090112T163917Z.html)
> I'd highly appreciate feedback from the maintainer(s) about their
> point of view since it's one of the few/the only tool(s) which is
> able to sanely edit gpt disklabels. *If* there's any chance to
> re-add and get the release into lenny it should be taken IMHO.

I will have a look this weekend/monday and package the new release.

And if it is well-done and if #504747 is really closed, I will consider to re-add it
for the Lenny release.

Greetings,
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