Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
I'd like to upgrade to parted 3.1; see #646130. This is quite a big change, and the reason we haven't done it up to now was that the removal of unsupportable file system handling code broke d-i. However, we've since changed/removed the affected code in d-i, and the only remaining piece there is to apply a patch to partman-base (#738923). I have renamed libparted0-dev to libparted-dev, but I've left a transitional package behind as the transition proved to be too complicated otherwise. I'll drop this eventually once nothing needs it any more. As part of preparing for this transition, I've applied fixes in advance to fatresize and grub-installer, and expect to also fix gnu-fdisk and of course partman-base. I expect to be ready to upload to unstable in a few days' time, if approved. If you want to look at my pending packaging changes, they're here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=parted/debian/parted.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/v3 Reverse-dependencies: * fatresize, gparted, grub-installer, hurd, kvpm, libvirt, nwipe, partconf, partitioner, pyparted, udisks These should all be binNMUable. Confirmed: fatresize, gparted, grub-installer, kvpm, nwipe, partconf, pyparted, udisks Can't confirm since not for an architecture I run: hurd, partitioner Broken for other reasons: libvirt (#753121) * gnu-fdisk Maintained (sort of) by parted-maintainers. This is a bit of a disaster area right now, but I'm going to upgrade to 1.3.0a and fix it to be compatible with new readline, which should help. However, it's not in testing so doesn't block this transition. * guymager Loads libparted at run-time and needs a sourceful patch to update its hardcoded dependency. I'll coordinate this and NMU if necessary. * partitionmanager Needs upgrade to 1.1.0, or backport of changes to support parted 3.1. I've filed #754580. * partman-base Needs some code removal; see #738923. I'll probably tweak this a bit to allow it to be binNMUed once the transition begins. Ben file: title = "parted"; is_affected = .depends ~ "libparted0" | .depends ~ "libparted2"; is_good = .depends ~ "libparted2"; is_bad = .depends ~ "libparted0"; Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140712160319.ga6...@riva.ucam.org
