Re: Parted 1.7.x branch now available

[Nathaniel McCallum]

Sven Luther wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:29:57PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have forked off Parted's 1.7.x development branch.
> > It is called "devel" rather than "stable" in cvs.
> >
> > I've written some shell scripts that automatically merge in changes
> > from 1.6.x into 1.7.x, so it will hopefully remain a friendly
> > environment to work in...
> >
> > So, should HFS go in stable or devel?
> >    
>
> Well, debian has been using that patch since month (like >6 month or so), and
> altough i have no positive data on who used it, i have had zero negative
> reports. It is part of the new debian-installer, so it has/will be getting
> rather strong testing.
>  
Gentoo has been using that patch for a long time as well.  I'd say we've 
been tracking it for about 9 months or so (maybe longer).

Nathaniel