[Parted-maintainers] Bug#461888: any news regarding #461888?

[Michael Prokop]

* Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> [Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 12:31:01PM +0200]:
> * Aurélien GÉRÔME <ag at debian.org> [20080812 01:37]:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:47:11AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > > any news regarding #461888? Do you need any help?

> > util-linux fdisk is more mature than gnu-fdisk whose upstream
> > development has stopped from quite some time...Therefore, I do not
> > presently intend to comply with your request.

> ACK, but gnu-fdisk uses libparted (whereas util-linux does not) and
> several users WANT to use gnu-fdisk BECAUSE of some features not
> available within util-linux. So why not let the user decide which
> binaries he prefers? If you think update-alternatives isn't the way
> to go why not just provide gnu-fdisk as /sbin/gnu-fdisk and cfdisk
> as /sbin/gnu-cfdisk?

New versions of gnu-fdisk were released and are available in Debian
nowadays. Any chance to see the update-alternatives mechanism in
util-linux fdisk/gnu-fdisk?

regards,
-mika-

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