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--- Begin Message ---Package: util-linux Version: 2.27.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The sfdisk man page documents using --dump to dump partitions of a system and later restore them by feeding them to sfdisk from the standard input. The format of this dump has changed in the rewrite in version 2.26, and thus a dump generated by Stretch cannot be used by Jessie. New versions seem to be able to use old dumps. A simple cwscript I use here to convert new format to old: sed \ -e 's/type=/Id=/' \ -e '/^label:/d' \ -e '/^label-id:/d' \ -e '/^device:/d' \ # Is dumping and restoring accross versions supported? -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2 ii libblkid1 2.27.1-1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libfdisk1 2.27.1-1 ii libmount1 2.27.1-1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20151024-1 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2+b1 ii libsmartcols1 2.27.1-1 ii libsystemd0 227-2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-1 ii libudev1 227-2 ii libuuid1 2.27.1-1 ii lsb-base 9.20150917 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.2 ii tzdata 2015g-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-70 ii dosfstools 3.0.28-2 ii util-linux-locales 2.27.1-1 -- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---* Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> [180812 19:20]: > The sfdisk man page documents using --dump to dump partitions of a > system and later restore them by feeding them to sfdisk from the > standard input. > > The format of this dump has changed in the rewrite in version 2.26, and > thus a dump generated by Stretch cannot be used by Jessie. So, as with almost all tools, forward-compatibility but not backwards; upstream appears to agree. I think this is just how any feature evolves, and don't see a bug as such here. Thanks, Chris
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