util-linux's sfdisk no longer supporting C/H/S adressing

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Sun May 17 17:16:12 UTC 2015


Am Sonntag, den 17.05.2015, 11:02 +0200 schrieb Andreas Henriksson:
> Hello!
> 
> Your package showed up in a codesearch for potential users
> of the long deprecated and now removed Cylinder / Head / Sector
> adressing and commandline options to sfdisk. With the rewrite
> of sfdisk included in util-linux 2.26 (as already available
> in Debian Unstable) these deprecated options where removed
> (not reimplemented). Please check your package to make sure
> it still works. If it does not, please upload a fixed version
> and then report a bug against util-linux requesting a Breaks
> to be added against your package and also mention the version
> number of the fixed package, to allow smoothing upgrades.
> 
> While at it, please also consult the manpage for additional
> deprecated commandline switches you might be using which
> you'll want to drop.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
> 

Hi,

nothing to do for you and us.
The grub mkbimage which has this reference is actually replaced by us
with a script which just tells the user to use grub-mkrescue from the
grub-pc package
This took a while until I realized this myself. I was already looking
into fixing this :)




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