Bug#1093565: partman: changing partition usage may leave the wrong type in partition table

To: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>, 1093565@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1093565: partman: changing partition usage may leave the wrong type in partition table
From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:03:54 +0100
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Hi Holger,

On 13/12/2025 at 12:12, Holger Wansing wrote:


partman-newworld and partman-prep are no longer in use AFAIK.

AFAICS partman-prep is still included in ppc64el images, andgrub-installer still looks for a PReP boot partition.


I don't know about partman-newworld, it seems to be an old PowerMac thing.

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