Hi Colin, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:22:42PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > 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. that one already migrated to testing in the meantime, so that's done. > 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): There are (at least) two qt packages involved, so that should be done before the qt transition starts. So with 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 theoretically every source package could switch its build-dep to libparted-dev already? Or are those supposed to use the precise version as they do now? (I.e. in the current state they are not binNMU-able.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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