[Parted-maintainers] Bug#646130: parted versions lags behind

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 05:52:06PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> Current parted in Debian is one and a half years old by now; 2.4 was
> released 18:th May this year, and 3.0 was released 30:th May this year.
> I hopefully assume a lot of 3TB issues are solved in later releases that
> might still be present in 2.3

While this is true, there's a bunch of stuff we need to rewrite in the
Debian installer before it's safe to upgrade parted.  I've started work
on a tool to let us wrap progress bars around non-parted-based
filesystem tools - which, frankly, we've needed for ages anyway, but it
becomes critical with parted 3.0 - but I haven't got very far yet.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]