[Parted-maintainers] Bug#536385: parted: fails to create linux-swap

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Package: parted
Version: 1.8.8.git.2009.06.03-1
Severity: important

Running
parted --script -- /tmp/vmbuilder4fXZ4Q/disk0.img mkpart primary linux-swap 8192 9215
fails with the new version in unstable which is pretty unfortunate as you
can't create swap partitions anymore. In case the syntax changed it was not
documented, so I guess parted is broken. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-think (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6          2.9-19                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5    5.7+20090530-1            shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.8-1 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5   5.2-5                     GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc                    <none>     (no description available)

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