[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] parted unblock, and upcoming transition
Colin Watson
cjwatson at debian.org
Thu Mar 11 12:42:36 UTC 2010
Could parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 be unblocked, please? It's needed
to smooth the path for parted 2.2 in the near future.
Speaking of which, I would like to upload parted 2.2 to unstable (it's
currently in experimental) once 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 reaches testing.
The reason to try to get this into squeeze is that without it we won't
properly support "Advanced Format" (i.e. >512-byte logical sectors) hard
drives, which are becoming increasingly common. There is an ABI
transition involved, among the following source packages (maintainers
CCed):
devicekit-disks
fatresize
gnu-fdisk
gparted
libvirt
partconf
partitioner
partitionmanager
partman-base
pyparted
qtparted
udisks
I believe that all of these are trivial matters of changing
build-dependencies, with the exception of fatresize which needs a fix to
its configure script as well (already done upstream); some of these
packages already had appropriate or nearly-appropriate versions in
experimental, last I checked.
We might want to let devicekit-disks/udisks get into testing first, but
after that's done, would it be convenient to the release team and to the
other maintainers CCed here to start this transition? I can supervise
it, upload the d-i parts and the QA-maintained qtparted directly, and
file bugs with patches as necessary for the others.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson at debian.org]
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