Re: Bug#760499: partman-partitioning: uninstallable on kfreebsd-*: depends on ntfs-3g-udeb

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

tags 760499 + pending
thanks

Hi KiBi,

On 04/09/14 20:22, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> this package is no longer installable on kfreebsd-* since it depends on
> ntfs-3g-udeb; this totally breaks d-i on kfreebsd-* since partman-base
> depends on partman-partitioning, and many other components depend on
> partman-base.

I know almost everything looks uninstallable according to:
http://d-i.debian.org/edos/#unstable

But it seems I can still build d-i from unstable udebs, and anna fetches
all the needed udebs, not caring that partman-partitioning/104 and
partman-basicfilesystems/98 are uninstallable.  In partman itself I
don't notice any regressions in functionality.  I can't actually find
anything broken due to this?

That said, I would of course like to clean this up.

I can't find any documentation that kfreebsd ever supported ntfs in d-i.
 If/when we come to implement that we should base it on ntfs-3g and
Colin's new code in partman-basicfilesystems.  It's not a high priority
for me though.

Until then, we'll drop the dependency;  partman's menus don't list ntfs
as an available option if I do this.  I've applied this in Git in case
anyone is able to do a new upload fixing this soon.  Thanks.

> [ usertagged kfreebsd, debian-bsd@ x-d-cc'd. ]

Thanks for a perfect bug report.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org