Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Jeff Licquia <licquia@progeny.com> [2003-12-04 15:47]:This is a port of Red Hat's python bindings to Debian. This package is needed by Anaconda.How does that differ from python-parted? Why are the -rh changes not merged in the former?
Back in the day, Progeny wrote some Python bindings for parted. Those are the python-parted package. Several of our projects, including PGI and autoinstall, use those bindings.
Afterwards, Red Hat wrote their own python-parted bindings. Both of us submitted our bindings to the parted maintainer, and he preferred the Red Hat bindings. However, he has yet (as far as I know) to merge those with upstream parted.
Of course, Anaconda uses the RH bindings. When we went to do the Anaconda work, we realized we needed the RH bindings ported to Debian. So, we did them.
I'm not averse to the python-parted-rh package replacing the python-parted one, but I want to make sure that projects using the other one aren't still relying on it.