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Re: Parted 1.7.x branch now available
From: |
Sven Luther |
Subject: |
Re: Parted 1.7.x branch now available |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:14:11 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:12:15PM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:29:57PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I have forked off Parted's 1.7.x development branch.
> >>It is called "devel" rather than "stable" in cvs.
> >>
> >>I've written some shell scripts that automatically merge in changes
> >>from 1.6.x into 1.7.x, so it will hopefully remain a friendly
> >>environment to work in...
> >>
> >>So, should HFS go in stable or devel?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Well, debian has been using that patch since month (like >6 month or so),
> >and
> >altough i have no positive data on who used it, i have had zero negative
> >reports. It is part of the new debian-installer, so it has/will be getting
> >rather strong testing.
> >
> >
> Gentoo has been using that patch for a long time as well. I'd say we've
> been tracking it for about 9 months or so (maybe longer).
So, let's vote for the stable branch then, i don't think it is all that
disruptive anyway, since i don't think it will have an influence outside the
mac partition table stuff.
Friendly,
Sven Luther