Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2011-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
It appears that upstream versions 2.4 and later contain all the enhancements needed. These include: o a bug fix for LDL-formatted disks that allows the partition starting sector and number of sectors to be calculated correctly if the block size of the disk is something other th

Bug#578097: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-05-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:44:59 -0400 (EDT), Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Your patch is large enough that we have to require >> a signed copyright assignment. >> >> Here's the relevant section from HACKING: >> >> http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob;f=HACKING#l428

Bug#578097: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-05-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:44:59 -0400 (EDT), Jim Meyering wrote: > > Your patch is large enough that we have to require > a signed copyright assignment. > > Here's the relevant section from HACKING: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob;f=HACKING#l428 > > Sorry for the hassle (it

Bug#578097: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:44:59 -0400 (EDT), Jim Meyering wrote: > Your patch is large enough that we have to require > a signed copyright assignment. > > Here's the relevant section from HACKING: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob;f=HACKING#l428 > > Sorry for the hassle (it'll

Bug#578097: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Stephen Powell wrote: ... > OK, I'll do the paperwork. But did you start with my raw changes, or Thanks. So far I have applied no changes, but rather looked through the patches Jonathan posted. From what he said, his modifications were insubstantial, but I did not try to verify that. > did you

Bug#578097: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:44:59 -0400 (EDT), Jim Meyering wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I'm not a lawyer, but I hereby grant to FSF all rights that they want or need >> in order to include any of my code under the same license that parted >> currently >> uses. If you're worried about IBM, the cl

Bug#578097: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT), Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Hello Jonathan and Stephen, >> >> First, thank for both of you. >> >> Stephen, from what I saw in your patch it will require copyright assignment >> to FSF so while Jim and others with more experience in s3

Bug#578097: [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT), Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello Jonathan and Stephen, > > First, thank for both of you. > > Stephen, from what I saw in your patch it will require copyright assignment > to FSF so while Jim and others with more experience in s390 take a look on > that, it

Bug#578097: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Jonathan and Stephen, First, thank for both of you. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > > > OK, I'll be happy to do that; but some guy named Jonathan Nieder > > (jrnie...@gmail.com) apparently saw the Debian bug report and took > > it upon him

Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 578097 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2010-04/msg00011.html thanks Hi Stephen, Stephen Powell wrote: > OK, I'll be happy to do that; but some guy named Jonathan Nieder > (jrnie...@gmail.com) apparently saw the Debian bug report and took > it upon himself to submit someth

Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:38:25 -0400 (EDT), Otavio Salvador wrote: > It would be much better if you could send them directly to the upstream > mailing list since we will probably need FSF copyright assigment for this to > get commited in the upstream repository. Besides that, they're in much > better

Bug#578097: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Stephen, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > ... > First I'd like to thank you by looking at it. It would be much better if you could send them directly to the upstream mailing list since we will probably need FSF copyright assigment for this to get commited in the up

Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2010-04-16 Thread Stephen Powell
Package: parted Version: 2.2-5 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: 447...@bugs.debian.org Currently, parted has no support for CMS-formatted disks on the s390 architecture, though this format *is* supported by the Linux kernel. This bug report is a "wishlist" bug report (i.e. an enhancement request)