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

[Michael Prokop]

Hi,

* Leslie P. Polzer <address@hidden> [20081212 11:08]:

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

That's great news. :) When do you expect to be able to provide the
new release?

> 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.

Ok.

> > 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. :/

That's bad, I'll inform the Debian maintainer about this.

> Thanks for the heads up.

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

Ok. Are you in contact with any libparted developers to ask them for
help regarding #504747?

> What's your interest in GNU fdisk?

I'm maintainer of the grml Linux Live-CD for sysadmins (check out
http://grml.org/) and I'm interested in shipping GNU fdisk with our
live-cds. In the past we suffered from the 'unable to open /dev/sda
- unrecognised disk label' problem. Would be great to see this issue
fixed. :)

thx && regards,
-mika-

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