(off list) I thought to discuss it first (maybe the key people would claim it is not a bug, so a bug report would be a waste of time, more or less).
I will file a bug in a day or two, depending on other mail replies. If you think that is unneccessary and I should file a bug immediately, plese say so. Regards, David > -----Original Message----- > From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:53 PM > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Cc: David Balazic > Subject: Re: Extended partition creation policy ? > > > Hello David, > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 14:14, David Balazic wrote: > > I noticed, that when the debian installer is instructed to create > > two partitions, whose joint size is less than the size of the disk, > > then it creates one primary partition and one logical > partition inside > > an extended partition. > > > > The issue is, that this extended partition has the size of > the logical > > partition and not the maximum possible size (the entire empty disk > > space plus the logical parition). > > The correct way to report this would be to file a bug report > [1] against > the package "partman-base". That will make sure it is brought to the > attention of the debian-installer team and that its > resolution will be > tracked in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS). > > Could you please do that? > > Thanks, > FJP > > [1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >
