[Parted-maintainers] Bug#840709: parted: Prevent crash resizing FAT with very deep directories

[Steven Shiau]

Package: parted
Version: 3.2-16+b1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,
Could you please apply the patch from upstream to prevent crash resizing 
FAT with very deep directories:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=6242ad71d855be62d99ec345e52393be86ca9900
The patch was applied in GParted live and confirmed to work well:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762448

Thank you very much.

Steven

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Debian Release: stretch/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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ii  libc6         2.24-3
ii  libparted2    3.2-16+b1
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ii  libtinfo5     6.0+20160917-1

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