On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:02:56PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:43:59 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > ... > > And yes, s390x will hopefully come soon. > That's good news, Philipp. A 64-bit user space will be a > welcome addition. Actually its focus is to be a replacement for the existing 31bit userland. > On a related topic, upstream "parted" at release 2.4 and later > contains very useful enhancements for the s390 environment. > Although these enhancements will be useful in the standard parted > packages, the most important benefits will be in the udeb packages, > those used by the Debian installer. They will, for example, allow > installation to CMS minidisks, FBA DASD, and use of the DIAG driver > for the first time. Yet the Debian package continues to use release > 2.3. The package maintainer is aware of this, or should be, but > I've seen no progress as of yet. Perhaps your influence might help. Now that's an entirely different topic. I trust in Colin's expertise in that matter. Maybe we can get the new upstream version in time for the next release, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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