Hi Luca, On Friday 18 Dec 2009 04:01:15 Luca Falavigna wrote: > Recently, upstream declared that pyparted is bound to Fedora libparted, > and not with upstream [3], so I'm not sure future versions will be ever > supported by our libparted. > My initial request was then for 2 packages, pyparted and pyblock, which I wanted to have as a good python library for mingling with block devices. When I myself started working on packaging pyblock, I realized that it was tightly dependent on Fedora [1]. I worked it out with upstream and concluded that most of these sub-projects are only there to cater to Anaconda's requirements. So pyblock just got dropped. I am sure the same might be the case for the current liblvm (LVM Library Interface) that Red Hat is working on. > How to proceed from here? Here are some scenarios: > 1. Keep things as they are now: stick with 2.2 for Squeeze, and see > what happens libbparted side in Squeeze + 1. > 2. Package 2.4, patch it to be compatible with our libparted, and face > RC bugs that will eventually be reported, without upstream support. > 3. Remove pyparted from Sid and Squeeze. Given the roadmap that many of the Fedora sub-projects usually have, I think it will be a tough task from the maintenance perspective for other distributions. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512010 Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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