Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool

2019-09-04 Thread gui
Package: wnpp Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I intend to orphan the gdisk package. The package description is: GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on

Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool

2019-09-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 09:24:31PM +0200, g...@iroqwa.org wrote: > I intend to orphan the gdisk package. > The package description is: > GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning > tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier > (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than > o

Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool

2019-09-05 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/09/05 12:05, Simon Richter wrote: > I believe this can be safely removed. The fdisk program has gained GPT > support since gdisk was written, so a separate tool is no longer needed. I'm not sure they have feature parity, I've had to help a lot of people who had strange partition layouts (h

Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool

2019-09-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Simon Richter (2019-09-05 12:05:40) > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 09:24:31PM +0200, g...@iroqwa.org wrote: > > > I intend to orphan the gdisk package. > > > The package description is: > > GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning > > tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier >

Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool

2019-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/09/05 12:27, Jonathan Carter wrote: > If I'm correct and fdisk does indeed not let you do that then I'd rather > maintain gdisk than have it removed from the archives since I somewhat > rely on it for some of my users who have crappy^W more lower-end laptops. I adopted this package today.