Bug#599437: Looks like we should drop gdisk for squeeze

[Guillaume Delacour]

Le samedi 13 novembre 2010 à 17:27 +0000, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> Hi,

Hi,

>
> gdisk 0.5.1-1 is currently in squeeze and sid and has the RC bug
> #599437 open against it. There's a new upstream version available
> (0.6.13), but the change is huge (39 files changed, 9069
> insertions(+), 2593 deletions(-)); IMHO the changes are far too large
> for an update now.

I tried to contact upstream a week ago to know his opinion for fix these
bugs but i didn't received any answer at this moment.

>
> The code in the older version of gdisk looks nasty, I'll be honest,
> and I would rather see it removed. Small popcon usage and no rdeps.

I agree, it could be reasonnable to report the inclusion in the next
stable release.

>
> Guillaume, I know you have the new upstream version waiting on a
> sponsor. I might be persuaded to sponsor that for you targetting
> post-squeeze.
>

Thanks; i've to upload the last 0.6.13 on mentors (currently 0.6.11
uploaded).

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 17:27 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> gdisk 0.5.1-1 is currently in squeeze and sid and has the RC bug
> #599437 open against it. There's a new upstream version available
> (0.6.13), but the change is huge (39 files changed, 9069
> insertions(+), 2593 deletions(-)); IMHO the changes are far too large
> for an update now.
>

> The code in the older version of gdisk looks nasty, I'll be honest,
> and I would rather see it removed. Small popcon usage and no rdeps.

For the record, Julien added a removal hint for this yesterday and it's
no longer in Squeeze.

Regards,

Adam

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