• Bug#265194: Bug#265617: udeb of linux-ntfs will help Debian Sarge insta

    From David =?iso-8859-1?q?Mart=EDnez_Mor@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 05:00:05 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

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    El S�bado, 14 de Agosto de 2004 02:03, Dustin Harriman escribi�:
    Package: linux-ntfs
    Version: 1.9.0-1
    Severity: important

    d-i RC 1 can currently resize vfat, ext2, and ext3 partitions during a
    Debian install. The utility that currently provides this resizing
    capability is "GNU parted", but it has no support for resizing NTFS partitions.
    [...]

    And that has no activity since years.

    [...]
    I humbly request that a stripped down "udeb" of "libntfs5" (and possibly
    also ntfstools) be created so that they are suitable to be used in d-i.
    Then integration between GNU parted and libntfs5 or ntfsresize would be
    much more acheivable.

    No, it is not necessary to package all the things, only what you are going to
    use. After the installation, you will have full .deb support, so in the udeb you will need a stripped, size-optimized, statically-linked ntfsresize only (just exactly how Joey kindly put into bug #265617, many thanks, Joey!).

    From Debian bug 265194
    Anton Zinoviev wrote:
    Feel free to file a wishlist bug report against ntfsresize for making an udeb. If we have such a package in 20 days and there are no too much unknown bugs in partman there will be chances to make the necessary
    changes in partman before rc3 (provided that there will be rc3 at all).

    Do not worry, I just saw that I messed the Conflicts and Replaces in 1.9.2-1,
    so tomorrow I will release a new version with the udeb.

    *NOTE* After that, you will have to talk to archive maintainers for approving my release in time as I suppose that they need to edit the override file for udebs as well.

    Many thanks, and please keep up your superb work,


    Ender.
    - --
    Network engineer
    Debian Developer
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