Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:19:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> This issue will be further discussed during a Debian Installer team
> meeting on Wednesday next week. You can expect some decision from the
> team about whether the udebs can stay or not after that.
There is a new upstream release of gnu-fdisk which supports *BSD
disklabels, i have not tested yet (i'm planning to test it soon),
but i really think it could be useful for gnu/kfreebsd porters to
have a d-i based installer.
> Even if they accepted, there will be some packaging changes needed,
> therefore reopening this BR. We'll give you details of needed changes
> after the decision, but basically they are:
> - gnu-cfdisk udeb should be dropped because of its dependency on
> ncurses, which is not supported in D-I
> - D-I does not support "Conflicts:"; Robert suggested renaming the binary
> to gnu-fdisk to avoid the conflicts
These issues will be fixed in my next upload.
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