Bug#392042: software RAID volumes can not be partitioned

2008-12-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
A thought: The patch from #303914 might have to be partially undone in order to (re)admit partitionable md devices. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#392042: software RAID volumes can not be partitioned

2008-12-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
I just ran into this after, over a period of two days, trying to figure out why D-I / partman doesn't allow me to partition /dev/md0, and why it would not even recognize a manual partitioning created via `cfdisk`. I think it would be very useful if partman supported partitionable md devices. I

RE: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Erik Steffl wrote: > That's why I think it is better to use standard names, even though some > of them might be objectionable from certain perspectives. But that's the point! The name is objectionable from a technical perspective: it's unnecessarily long and bulky. We are not writing "Germany (F

RE: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-06 Thread Julian Mehnle
Branden Robinson wrote: > We have nothing to gain by taking sides political conflicts like this. > [...] > If some governmental interest needs to bowdlerize our distribution to > satisify their political sensibilities, they can go ahead. IMO, this is really not about taking sides, and I think it's