Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-21 Thread Julien Louis
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:19:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > This issue will be further discussed during a Debian Installer team > meeting on Wednesday next week. You can expect some decision from the > team about whether the udebs can stay or not after that. There is a new upstream release of g

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-16 Thread Frans Pop
found 430023 0.9.4-2 retitle 430023 New udebs need D-I team approval and need packaging fixes thanks On Friday 13 July 2007 01:48, Frans Pop wrote: > It's up to you if you'd prefer to remove the udebs again for now, but > my suggestion would be to wait for the result of the discussion on the > deb

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:26:26AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 14 July 2007 20:15, Robert Millan wrote: > > > - we already have parted-udeb, which I expect _does_ support GPT > > > > In my use case, the person who was installing had to call me because he > > had to edit a GPT disk and did

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 20:15, Robert Millan wrote: > > - we already have parted-udeb, which I expect _does_ support GPT > > In my use case, the person who was installing had to call me because he > had to edit a GPT disk and didn't know how to handle parted. With my > proposed solution, I would

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:21:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 09:54, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'd like to request that the gnu-fdisk and gnu-cfdisk packages be added > > to^W^Wkept in the D-I section of the Debian archive. There is a small > > use case in which this is useful

Re: Regarding: Bug 430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:17:32PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > About the udebs, I agree that would be better to have a message on > Debian Boot mailing list about them, before asking for them to be > build but I also think that noone need to know about that. We ought > write it on Developer

Re: Requesting new udebs (was: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb)

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:33:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 09:44, Robert Millan wrote: > > Ok, but please let's not make a big fuss of this. The udebs were just > > added to the archive, not to D-I. > > And you also added them to all CD images... Doesn't "extra" priority

Re: Regarding: Bug 430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-13 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 13 July 2007 21:38, Geert Stappers wrote: >> The only "risk" I see, is the udeb Package file be coming fat. D-I won't >> fetch udebs it doesn't need, so no harm, no conflicts, no problems. > > Apparently you are having problems understanding my ar

Re: Regarding: Bug 430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 July 2007 21:38, Geert Stappers wrote: > The only "risk" I see, is the udeb Package file be coming fat. D-I won't > fetch udebs it doesn't need, so no harm, no conflicts, no problems. Apparently you are having problems understanding my arguments. Please read my earlier mails again.

Regarding: Bug 430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-13 Thread Geert Stappers
> > OK, so basically the only reason is that the regular fdisk and cfdisk do > not support GPT partition tables? > > In that case, I think we should _not_ add these udebs, for the following > reasons: > - we already have parted-udeb, which I expect _does_ support GPT > - the new udebs conflict

Re: Requesting new udebs (was: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb)

2007-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 July 2007 09:44, Robert Millan wrote: > Ok, but please let's not make a big fuss of this. The udebs were just > added to the archive, not to D-I. And you also added them to all CD images... > And I requested it out of ignorance, not malice I'm sorry if this seems like making a big

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 July 2007 09:54, Robert Millan wrote: > I'd like to request that the gnu-fdisk and gnu-cfdisk packages be added > to^W^Wkept in the D-I section of the Debian archive. There is a small > use case in which this is useful: > > - You start an install using GPT. > - You manually edit t

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:30:14AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > It's up to you if you'd prefer to remove the udebs again for now, but my > > suggestion would be to wait for the result of the discussion on the > > debian-boot list. As far as I'm concerned it is up to Robert to initiate > > tha

Re: Requesting new udebs (was: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb)

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:23:55AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 01:48, Frans Pop wrote: > > I was quite surprised to see the two new udebs from your source package > > gnu-fdisk appear. Mainly because there has not been any discussion by > > Robert about adding them with the res

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:48:17AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Hello Julien, > > I was quite surprised to see the two new udebs from your source package > gnu-fdisk appear. Mainly because there has not been any discussion by > Robert about adding them with the rest of the D-I team and the D-I > r

Re: Requesting new udebs (was: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb)

2007-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 July 2007 02:23, Frans Pop wrote: > The main reasons for this are: > - the size of installation images should not be increased without > discussion > - every new udeb may need to be excluded in debian-cd > - migration for all udebs needs to be consciously managed (which mostly > fa

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 July 2007 01:48, Frans Pop wrote: > Of course, this is not really your problem, but more a problem within > the D-I team. For now however, it does mean that your package is > blocked from migrating to testing [1] until we have discussed the need > for the udebs in the team. Additional

Requesting new udebs (was: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb)

2007-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 July 2007 01:48, Frans Pop wrote: > I was quite surprised to see the two new udebs from your source package > gnu-fdisk appear. Mainly because there has not been any discussion by > Robert about adding them with the rest of the D-I team and the D-I > release managers in particular. Le

Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Julien, I was quite surprised to see the two new udebs from your source package gnu-fdisk appear. Mainly because there has not been any discussion by Robert about adding them with the rest of the D-I team and the D-I release managers in particular. As we do always try to limit the size of