[Parted-maintainers] Bug#557044: parted: Parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19 not informing the kernel of changes to the partition table

[Steven Shiau]

Package: parted
Version: 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19 not informing the kernel of changes to the partition


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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             2.10.1-7               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5       5.7+20090803-2         shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5      5.2-7                  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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