Hi, (restricting to #380226)
* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061122 14:16]: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 04:21, Steve Langasek wrote: > > But again, I don't understand how libparted has a bug separate from the > > linux-ntfs one. > > > I'm not sure there's any reason this bug would be specific to NTFS > > partitions, though, is there? > > libparted causes the starting sector of the partition to change, thus > making the physical partition invalid. This bug is indeed not even > strictly related to Vista partitions, but other partitions seem to get > created aligned on cylinder boundaries by default (or we'd have seen a > lot more bug reports). > > Your rationale for ignoring 380226 also makes no sense to me; if this > > bug manifests in the installer, isn't that still a data loss bug that > > we need to fix before release? There are also two other packages in > > testing, gparted and mindi, which use libparted, so if there's a > > dataloss-causing bug in libparted I don't see that it's ignorable even > > if we did accept an argument that data loss in the installer is ok > > (which I don't). > > There are a few reasons why I thought we could tag the libparted issue > etch-ignore: > 1) it is not a regression from Sarge > 2) there has been precious little attention to the issue from the > maintainers of parted even though the BR was already 3 months old; > I talked to Otavio today though and he promised to start on it Any news on this, Otavio? I don't want to tag it etch-ignore if that would mean the bug would just be ignored. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]