Re: Parted 1.6.21

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:22:44PM +0100, K.G. wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 07:58:43 +0100
> Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:04:06PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:37:19PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Anyway, i guess it would be much easier if the hfs patches where now 
> > > > finally
> > > > integrated into the main parted source code, what exactly is stopping 
> > > > that
> > > > from happening ? That patch-set has been in debian and i hear gentoo, 
> > > > since
> > > > ages, so i suppose it is ok to use. Maybe some copyright work is needed
> > > > though.
> > > 
> > > The HFS can applied right now, as far as I am concerned.  The only
> > > reason I haven't done it myself is because I've been very busy.  I like
> > > to have a free weekend following any release I make, so I can follow up
> > > any issues that crop up.
> > > 
> > > If someone else plans to have lots of time for quick bugfixes, then I'd
> > > be happy to apply the patches and release Parted 1.6.22...  (You can
> > > make this easier for me by applying the patch to cvs yourself ;)
> > 
> > Ok, will try to do this week, hopefully for a release next WE.
> > 
> > Also, i will add LVM/RAID flag support for mac partition tables, should be
> > trivial, using Linux_RAID and Linux_LVM partition types.
> > 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe I could have CVS write access and do it by
> myself. There is a couple of things that need to
> be done for clean integration into upstream (files
> that don't need to be patched, ...)
> Anyway it's not hard to figure out what is needed.
> But I'll need CVS access in the futur to ameliorate
> the code.

Maybe you can do something about the bug report : 

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275650

(Basically, mentioning the new HFS features in the man pages too).

I have currently the attached (rather minimal) patch applied to the debian
package.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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