Re: Remaining debian specific patch which can be merged, maybe ...

[Mathieu Bruneau]

Sven Luther wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 1.6.21 has made unecessary a bunch of debian patches, and now that the hfs one
> is going to be merged, i make another run of 
> patch-possible-integration-analysis.
>
> The remaining patches are : 
>
> Debian specific, so no real need to patch :
>   doc-package
>   reiserfs-libname      
>
> For the others, we have :
>   errors-to-stderr
>         This may be of interest in general, not sure though. It is a short and
>         trivial patch which predates my involvement with the debian parted
>         package.
>   
>   devfs
>         This one tries devfs reading if the /proc/partitions method failed and
>         we have devfs stuff.
>
>   s390
>         Maybe worth committing, huge patch and needs FSF copyright
>         assignement. Probably the two above too.
>
>   lvm2
>         Andrew voted against this one, so i am happy to keep it debian
>         specific for now.
>
>   ubd 
>   	This one is probably obsoleted by the recent change in 1.6.21.
>
> So, basically, the errors-to-stderr, devfs and s390 patch may be worth
> applying, doc-package, reiserfs-libname and lvm2 will stay debian-specific,
> and ubd can probably be dropped.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
>
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While we are there, I suggest changing the error messages. Instead of 
only the current "send this error messages and the following". We could 
add incentive for:

A description of what you were doing
The partition table (fdisk print)
Other usefull information

or more simply:
Refer them to the website of parted for more information of what could 
be usefull for bug submitting!

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