On 06/23/2013 01:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > reassign 713831 partman-lvm thanks > > This bug is assigned to the wrong package. > > And, for the record, I was very tempted to close it because of its > wording. > > Yes, we know it's 2013. Unfortunately, in 2013, it seems that we > have more and more people complaining about this and that feature > missing in Debian and Debian Installer and less and less people > really contributing to code. > > So, yes, we know partman can't reuse an encrypted LVM partition. > It has been written in gazillion bug reports. But, as of now, > nobody among those very clever bug submitters has been clever > enough to jump into the code and actually change that. > > So, let's continue to pile up bugs but, as least let's pile them > in the right package and not to a random package with "partition" > in its name. > > @Christian:
First and foremost I apologize for being so rude when I wrote that bug report. System administration problems really don't bring out the best in me and I'm sure you can probably relate as well on a bad day. Nonetheless that is still not an excuse for the fact that I was an asshole and I'm truly sorry about that. As for the fact that you reassigned this bug to partman-lvm I'm not the surest that's correct. It very well might be but please let me explain why I filed this bug report with of all packages partitioner. When I was filing I considered filing this among other places under partman-lvm or under partman-crypto. In fact of the two I was leaning towards partman-crypto because in theory if there was any hope of the Debian Installer seeing my LVM setup it would first have to recognize that it's dealing with an encrypted partition then prompt me to enter my passphrase if I wanted the contents of the encrypted partition to be available during the installation. My guess though certainly very plausible was something I thought you folks should probably corroborate for good measure. Thus I thought I'd file this under the partman package which was generic in relation to partitioning during installation and see where specifically it goes from there. Unfortunately while there were many packages of the form partman-* there was no actual partman package which had me confused. However as I looked around the big package list on debian.org I did notice the partitioner package and it's description( http://packages.debian.org/stable/partitioner ). At that point I thought I had the right thing because the description said that it's a udeb that was only used in the Debian Installer and so I thought okay bizarre naming convention but I've probably found what I needed. Thus that's what I went with. I should also have read more carefully yesterday. In fact I only noticed my other error just now when I was getting that last link for you. Had I read the description more carefully I'd have noticed that it said partitioner was used to help build Debian Installer images and not for the actual partitioning during install. However if you look at that description it wasn't written quite as clearly as I wrote it in the previous sentence so you can probably see how I got confused. As far as submitting a patch to solve the problem I will certainly try though in spite of significan't improvements on that front I'm still not as good as I'd like to be at auditing large source archives. As a coder I'm good. I have my data structures, algorithms, and operating system internals concepts down pat. What I'm not the best at is handling programs with many little moving parts and that's largely why I havn't made any significant source code contributions. Contrary to your opinion I certainly want to though for reasons both altruistic and selfish. I'm an idealist and I really do want to make the world a better freer place as much as possible. Furthermore I am all about Free Software to near Stallmanist levels. The only nonfree software on my machine is the BIOS itself and the firmware for my wireless card. Not even the driver just the firmware it uses. I do not enable contrib or non-free. I largely live what I preach. I encourage others to do likewise. Furthermore I have a vested interest in contributing. As a high school dropout literally without a diploma of any sort to my name nor any intent to acquire one if I can help it I need another way to prove to people what I'm worth. Nothing demonstrates skill and industrial know how like making nontrivial patches to open source projects and if I impress someone enough to be allowed to become a committer bonus points for me. Whether I'm an employee or freelancing contributions to open source are an undeniable demonstration of hardcore industrial capability which I'm sure will impress some people which is what I really need to do. Granted others will still discriminate against me for who I am anyway but these assholes aren't the sort of people I want to work for/with anyway. My point is that I truly do want to contribute. If my idealism and tough stance on closed source crap hasn't convinced you hopefully my selfish motives have. If you want me to solve this problem and if you believe I have what it takes let me know. While I can't guarantee success I will take a serious stab at it and I really do want to help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c766fc.8000...@riseup.net
