Re: Bug#649741: parted: Avoid multiple builds: FTBFS on hurd-i386

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:51 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Wed 23 Nov 2011 18:29:56 +0100, a écrit :
> > On the buildd sthibault with a clean build environment the build has
> > now been hanging for 114 days :(
> 
> Err, sthibault is not a buildd, it's me :)

I suspected something like that. Are you using a clean build
environment, in a chroot?

> parted is not auto-built, because we need a patch to get it working on
> GNU/Hurd, which I apply by hand when we really need a newer parted. Yes,
> it's on the wiki TODO list to finish the patch and get it integrated.

I did not reflect on the TODO list. I found it at the Debian GNU/Hurd
web pages:

parted 
      * decide on partition stuff, and submit

Is that the default partitioning for the debian installer?

> That said it's a good thing to avoid two builds, so your report is
> welcome :)

Thanks!