Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool

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Subject: Re: Bug#939421: O: gdisk -- GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool
From: Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 12:05:40 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20190905100539.GD5841@psi5.com>
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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 09:24:31PM +0200, gui@iroqwa.org wrote:

> I intend to orphan the gdisk package.

> The package description is:
>  GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning
>  tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier
>  (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than
>  on the more common (through 2009)
>  Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables.

I believe this can be safely removed. The fdisk program has gained GPT
support since gdisk was written, so a separate tool is no longer needed.

   Simon

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