Bug#558686: what version of libparted are you using?

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>]

Hello Jim,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just begun reading about this problem, and have a quick question:
> What version of libparted are you using?

We're using a version just before 1.9.0.

> I ask because there have been significant changes in the area
> of detecting when partitions are active.
>
> In particular: v1.9.0-137-g048602c
>
> http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=048602c1d5df93ddf4
>
>    ped_partition_busy: do not call the libparted exception handler
>
>    Modify libparted/arch/linux.c _partition_get_part_dev() to not call
>    _device_stat() but instead use stat directly, as _device_stat() calls
>    the libparted exception handler, and we don't want this here, the only
>    caller of _partition_get_part_dev() is _partition_is_mounted(), which
>    in turn only gets called by linux_partition_is_busy(), and we don't
>    want to "throw" exceptions from ped_partition_busy().
>
>    This issue was noticed in combination with pyparted as used by
>    anaconda, see: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/527035#c10

I fear the changes that this specific one depends on will change our
ABI and this will cause a soname bump.

I'll try to prepare the package for try it out.

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