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

Michael Prokop mika at debian.org
Mon May 21 16:52:25 UTC 2012


* Michael Prokop [Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 02:48:11PM +0100]:
> * Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> [Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 12:31:01PM +0200]:

> > 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?

Any news from the maintainer(s)? :)

regards,
-mika-
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