Re: [bug-fdisk] Current state of gnu-fdisk?

[Leslie P. Polzer]

Hi Michael,

GNU fdisk is maintained and a new release is due soon
(it's ready but I haven't managed to put it up yet).

At the moment no major changes are on schedule though
since it has proved to be pretty stable and feature complete
right now.

And distributions don't seem very keen at the moment
to give up crummy util-linux fdisk in favor of GNU fdisk.

Sorry for the broken links, the site needs to be updated
and the mailing list set to bounce all mail from
non-subscribers.


> And there are several serious outstanding issues in GNU fdisk, for
> example refering to the Debian BTS:
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504747
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445304
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504099

I didn't know of those and can't remember any of those ever
having reached us. :/

Thanks for the heads up.

I think #445304 has been fixed by Christian and #504747 is
libparted's fault. Not sure about #504099...

What's your interest in GNU fdisk?

  Leslie

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