Hi Samuel and Kalle, I am looking at old rc bugs in order to clean up the archive and ran into this bug.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:42:57AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 01:29:17 +0300, wrote: > > Until that is implemented, the partition-table support in > > libstore could be disabled altogether, because GNU Mach currently > > provides a named device for each partition. > > But the installer does not use it, for flexibility. > > But storeio can be used as an intermediate between the two. > > But what is actually linked against libparted is libstoreio, which is > shared between storeio and ext2fs. So we'd need two different > libstoreio, one with parted support, the other without. Given that about eight years have passed, would either of you be kind enough to check whether there still is a license incompatibility? If not, it feels unlikely that this will resolve itself soon. Would it make sense to move hurd into the contrib section as a means of acknowledging the license problem? Do you see another way of making forward progress here? Helmut
