parted unblock, and upcoming transition

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Could parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 be unblocked, please?  It's needed
to smooth the path for parted 2.2 in the near future.

Speaking of which, I would like to upload parted 2.2 to unstable (it's
currently in experimental) once 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 reaches testing.
The reason to try to get this into squeeze is that without it we won't
properly support "Advanced Format" (i.e. >512-byte logical sectors) hard
drives, which are becoming increasingly common.  There is an ABI
transition involved, among the following source packages (maintainers
CCed):

  devicekit-disks
  fatresize
  gnu-fdisk
  gparted
  libvirt
  partconf
  partitioner
  partitionmanager
  partman-base
  pyparted
  qtparted
  udisks

I believe that all of these are trivial matters of changing
build-dependencies, with the exception of fatresize which needs a fix to
its configure script as well (already done upstream); some of these
packages already had appropriate or nearly-appropriate versions in
experimental, last I checked.

We might want to let devicekit-disks/udisks get into testing first, but
after that's done, would it be convenient to the release team and to the
other maintainers CCed here to start this transition?  I can supervise
it, upload the d-i parts and the QA-maintained qtparted directly, and
file bugs with patches as necessary for the others.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]