[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#781495: udisksctl lacks commands for labelling and formatting

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Package: udisks2
Version: 2.1.3-5
Severity: normal

While UDisks implements functions for labelling [0] and formatting [1] 
partitions and drives and, judging by gnome-disks(1), they are pretty 
working, udisksctl(1) does not provide a user interface for them.

Not being something important by itself, in a couple with revoking raw 
access to removable block devices from users (bug #751892 [2]) this lack 
of feature presents a regression in Jessie for a user that wants 
re-label or re-format an USB-drive using a non-interactive utility: 
using e2label(8) / fatlabel(8) / mkfs(8) requires superuser rights now.

[0]: 
http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/UDisksFilesystem.html#udisks-filesystem-call-set-label
[1]: 
http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/UDisksBlock.html#udisks-block-call-format
[2]: https://bugs.debian.org/751892

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64
Debian Release: 8.0

--- Package information. ---
Depends                       (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-==============
libacl1                   (>= 2.2.51-8) | 2.2.52-2
libatasmart4                  (>= 0.13) | 0.19-3
libc6                          (>= 2.7) |
libglib2.0-0               (>= 2.31.18) |
libgudev-1.0-0                 (>= 165) |
libpolkit-agent-1-0           (>= 0.99) |
libpolkit-gobject-1-0        (>= 0.101) |
libudisks2-0                (>= 2.0.91) |
udev                                    |
dbus                                    |
parted                                  |


Recommends       (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
policykit-1                | 0.105-8
dosfstools                 | 3.0.27-1
ntfs-3g                    | 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1
eject                      | 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
gdisk                      | 0.8.10-2


Suggests            (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-===========
xfsprogs                      |
reiserfsprogs                 |
exfat-utils                   | 1.1.0-2
btrfs-tools                   | 3.17-1.1
mdadm                         |
cryptsetup-bin                | 2:1.6.6-5