Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 2021-09-26 at 12:45 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/26/21 12:40, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Does libparted support the discoverable partitions spec? > > I'm not sure, this thread is the first time I have heard about discoverable > partitions. I have read up first w

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Nick! On 9/26/21 16:29, Nick Black wrote: > I'd be delighted to support them -- as in, I am honestly eager > to add ATARI support; that sounds awesome -- I just need some > way to test the implementations, either via someone running it > on the environment, or getting access to such a machin

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/27/21 12:46, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> Also, since parted is maintained by RedHat, I would expect that this feature >> would land in parted soon as well. >> > If the question is "why does X not use libparted", "does not support > discoverable parts spec" is a good enough answer for me.

Re: Bug#992693: bullseye-pu: package glibc/2.31-13+deb11u1

2021-09-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Control: tags -1 + confirmed d-i Control: fixed 994042 2.32-3 Hi, On Sun, 2021-09-26 at 22:16 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-09-26 20:46, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 23:47 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > [...] > > > In the meantime another issue that would n

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 13:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/27/21 12:46, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > Also, since parted is maintained by RedHat, I would expect that this > > > feature > > > would land in parted soon as well. > > > > > If the question is "why does X not u

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:49:53PM -0400, Nick Black wrote: > So the only ones covered by partman and not covered by growlight would be: > amiga, atari, sun, > and mac (if mac is not the same as APM). I don't see any difficulty in > adding these four, so long > as there's someone with an Amiga or A

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > published in 2014 [0] so even by Debian standard it's old stuff. That’s not what I said so. You’re

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 15:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > > published in 2014 [0]

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Whether a tool that was developed new from scratch is automatically better is > not a given. The burden of proof is on the person trying to introduce the new > software, not on the people maintaining the current set of s

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 15:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>> >>> Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do >>> anything, and I'm not really sur

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Not for me, though. Debian has always followed the philosophy to be a > universal > operating system, which also meant that we can't (immediately) use all the new > technologies and features that other distributions or upstream projects > develop. I

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Metztli Information Technology
On 9/27/21 4:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Nick! On 9/26/21 16:29, Nick Black wrote: I'd be delighted to support them -- as in, I am honestly eager to add ATARI support; that sounds awesome -- I just need some way to test the implementations, either via someone running it on th

Bug#995209: d-i: partman-basicfilesystems: missing btrfs mount option descriptions

2021-09-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Package: partman-basicfilesystems Version: 156 Tags: patch Hello d-i team, The following mount options are advertised in mountoptions/btrfs from package partman-btrfs but lack descriptions in debian/partman-basicfilesystems.templates : nodatasum nodatacow nobarrier compress ssd noacl notreel