Package: parted Version: 2.3-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch The summary of supported functionality is dangerously obsolete. My attention was drawn to this package by the ancient libreiserfs references, but there's a more important problem that pushes this bug above my usual level of "wishlist".
> Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program (Well, about half of this is redundant!) > GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, > resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful (These days I need a partition-editor for a USB device as often as for a hard disk.) > for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising > disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package > contains the Parted binary and manual page. I notice that the other packages in the set have both the above line *and* one saying it contains the shared library or whatever. Instead I've split the above sentence out and added a pointer to parted-doc. > . > Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and > PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw Using the BSDism "disklabel" as if it was the main way of referring to a partition table is distinctly misleading; GNU/Linux users are liable to think in terms of either e2label or cd-circleprint! Couldn't we use "partitioning formats" as a generic term? > disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which > are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 No mention of ext4... indeed, the manpage still says that ext3 support is incomplete, and the Debian Wiki mumbles something about ext2 being broken. Reading the changelog on the other hand I see hints at support for ext4, ZFS and Btrfs detection, and HFS creation. > and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. > Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, > UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, In not-quite-alphabetical order... Oh, and given that UFS is used in PlayStations and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD installs, why does it get credited to dead/dying unices? My patch avoids the issue. > but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. So this is claiming Parted *can* be used to manipulate the "fully supported" file systems. However, hidden away in parted-doc is an upstream README declaring that *all* filesystem creation and modification via Parted is deprecated! Shouldn't major shrinkages in supported functionality like this be announced in parted's NEWS.Debian where apt-listchanges will display it, or at least here in the blurb? Yes, the binary will output warnings when I try to run it, but I want to be told that parted is unsafe as a rescue utility *before* I find myself relying on it... This is the part that promotes the bug from wishlist to at least minor, since the package description is actively advertising functionality that it should instead be warning users against. > . > Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install > the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been > removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the > default package. This mention of wheezy -4 is what first attracted my attention. I've simply thrown out the ReiserFS references. > . > The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause > massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, What, not even documentation bugs? Poorly phrased. > they could exist, so please back up all important files before > running it, and do so at your own risk. (For some reason all of the other package descriptions in the parted control file repeat all of the stuff about supported file systems *except* parted-doc, which is where I might have expected it to go into the most detail. To reduce future maintenance overhead I have trimmed all the packages other than parted itself to use only the first paragraph as boilerplate.) Unfortunately I can't find a canonical summary of what's currently supported, so I'm not really expecting my patch to be perfect, but here's my best guess: Description: disk partition manipulator GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. . This package contains the binary and manual page. Further documentation is available in parted-doc. . Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS, and PC98 partitioning formats, as well as a "loop" (raw disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. It can detect and remove ASFS/AFFS/APFS, Btrfs, ext2/3/4, FAT16/32, HFS, JFS, linux-swap, UFS, XFS, and ZFS file systems. Parted also has the ability to create and modify file systems of some of these types, but using it to perform file system operations is now deprecated. . The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive data loss. While there are no such bugs known at the moment, they could exist, so please back up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (200, 'squeeze-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libblkid1 2.17.2-9 block device id library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libparted0debian1 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libuuid1 2.17.2-9 Universally Unique ID library parted recommends no packages. Versions of packages parted suggests: ii parted-doc 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partition resi -- no debconf information -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru parted-2.3.pristine/debian/control parted-2.3/debian/control --- parted-2.3.pristine/debian/control 2011-02-25 18:48:52.000000000 +0000 +++ parted-2.3/debian/control 2011-02-25 19:47:16.897264055 +0000 @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/parted/debian/parted.git Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/debian/parted.git +Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), quilt, @@ -27,31 +28,27 @@ Suggests: parted-doc Conflicts: fsresize, parted1.6 Replaces: fsresize, parted1.6 -Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package - contains the Parted binary and manual page. - . - Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and - PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw - disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which - are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 - and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. - Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, - UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, - but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. - . - Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install - the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been - removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the - default package. - . - The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause - massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, - they could exist, so please back up all important files before - running it, and do so at your own risk. +Description: disk partition manipulator + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This package contains the binary and manual page. Further + documentation is available in parted-doc. + . + Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS, and PC98 + partitioning formats, as well as a "loop" (raw disk) type which + allows use on RAID/LVM. It can detect and remove ASFS/AFFS/APFS, + Btrfs, ext2/3/4, FAT16/32, HFS, JFS, linux-swap, UFS, XFS, and ZFS + file systems. Parted also has the ability to create and modify file + systems of some of these types, but using it to perform file system + operations is now deprecated. + . + The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive + data loss. While there are no such bugs known at the moment, they + could exist, so please back up all important files before running + it, and do so at your own risk. Package: parted-udeb XC-Package-Type: udeb @@ -67,7 +64,7 @@ Section: libs Priority: extra Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libparted0debian1 (= ${binary:Version}) -Description: The GNU Parted disk partitioning shared library (old name) +Description: disk partition manipulator - dummy package This is a dummy package providing smooth upgrades to libparted0debian1. You can safely remove it if no other package depends on it. @@ -80,29 +77,13 @@ Conflicts: parted (<< 1.4.13+14pre1), libparted1 (<< 2.2), libparted2 (<< 2.2) Replaces: libparted0 (<< 2.2-4), libparted1 (<< 2.2), libparted2 (<< 2.2), libparted1.4 (<< 1.4.24-2) Provides: libparted -Description: The GNU Parted disk partitioning shared library - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package - contains the Parted binary and manual page. - . - This package contains libparted, the required shared library - used by Parted. - . - Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and - PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw - disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which - are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 - and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. - Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, - UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, - but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. - . - The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause - massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, - they could exist, so please back up all important files before - running it, and do so at your own risk. +Description: disk partition manipulator - shared library + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This package contains the shared library. Package: libparted0-udeb XC-Package-Type: udeb @@ -110,35 +91,13 @@ Section: debian-installer Priority: extra Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} -Description: The GNU Parted disk partitioning shared library - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package - contains the Parted binary and manual page. - . - This package contains libparted, the required shared library - used by Parted. This is a cut-down package with no normal - documentation intended to be used in debian-installer. - . - Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and - PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw - disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which - are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 - and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. - Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, - UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, - but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. - . - Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install - the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been - removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the - default package. - . - The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause - massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, - they could exist, so please back up all important files before - running it, and do so at your own risk. +Description: disk partition manipulator - library udeb + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This is a cut-down library package for use in debian-installer. Package: libparted0-i18n Architecture: all @@ -147,28 +106,13 @@ Replaces: libparted1 (<< 2.2), libparted2 (<< 2.2), libparted1.4 (<< 1.4.24-2), libparted1.6 (<< 1.5+1.6.0-pre3-2), libparted1.4-i18n, parted (<< 1.4.13+14pre1) Conflicts: libparted-i18n Provides: libparted-i18n -Description: The GNU Parted disk partitioning library i18n support - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. - . - This package contains the i18n message catalogs for - libparted and parted. - . - Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and - PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw - disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which - are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 - and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. - Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, - UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, - but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. - . - The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause - massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, - they could exist, so please back up all important files before - running it, and do so at your own risk. +Description: disk partition manipulator - i18n support + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This package contains localization data. Package: libparted0-dev Architecture: any @@ -178,30 +122,14 @@ Conflicts: libparted-dev, parted (<< 1.2.11) Replaces: libparted-dev, libparted2-dev (<< 2.2) Provides: libparted-dev -Description: The GNU Parted disk partitioning library development files - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package - contains the Parted binary and manual page. - . - This package contains the static library and header files - for libparted, which are really only of interest to parted - developers. - . - Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and - PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw - disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which - are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 - and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. - Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, - UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, - but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. - . - The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause - massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, - they could exist, so please back up all important files before - running it, and do so at your own risk. +Description: disk partition manipulator - development files + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This package contains the static library and header files for + libparted, which are really only of interest to parted developers. Package: libparted0debian1-dbg Architecture: any @@ -211,33 +139,18 @@ Conflicts: libparted-dbg Replaces: libparted-dbg, libparted0-dbg (<< 2.2-4) Provides: libparted-dbg -Description: The GNU Parted disk partitioning library debug development files - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package - contains the Parted binary and manual page. - . - This package contains the debugging static library for - libparted, which are really only of interest to parted - developers who need to debug their programs. +Description: disk partition manipulator - debugging symbols + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This package contains the debugging static library for libparted, + which is really only of interest to parted developers who need to + debug their programs. . The debugging libraries are installed as /usr/lib/libparted_g.a Link specifically with them if you want to debug. - . - Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and - PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw - disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which - are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 - and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. - Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, - UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, - but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. - . - The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause - massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, - they could exist, so please back up all important files before - running it, and do so at your own risk. Package: parted-doc Architecture: all @@ -246,11 +159,11 @@ Conflicts: parted1.6-doc Replaces: parted1.6-doc Depends: ${misc:Depends}, install-info -Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program documentation - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, - resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful - for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising - disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package - contains user documentation for parted (for the 'parted' - package) and API documentation for libparted (for the - 'libparted0debian1' and 'libparted0-dev' packages). +Description: disk partition manipulator - documentation + GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, + move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space + for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data + to new hard disks. + . + This package contains user documentation for parted and API + documentation for the library packages.
