[Parted-maintainers] Bug#720214: will Debian ever update libparted from version 2 to upstreams' version 3?

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: libparted0debian1
Version: 2.3-15

Will Debian ever update libparted from version 2 to upstreams' version 3?

Version 2 has bugs.

# set /dev/sdf
# fdisk.distrib -l $@

Disk /dev/sdf: 4075 MB, 4075290624 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 124368 cylinders, total 7959552 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1              16       15679        7832    4  FAT16 <32M
/dev/sdf2           15680     7959551     3971936   83  Linux
# fdisk -l $@
GNU Fdisk 1.2.5
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

No Implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.  This is still unsupported.