Bug 750566 - qtparted won't install because it is from F15 and requires libparted.so.0, and F16 has libparted.so.1

Emanuel Rietveld codehotter at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 08:00:30 UTC 2011


On 11/03/2011 07:34 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tom Callaway wrote:
>> I took a quick look at qtparted a few days ago, the problem is that
>> qtparted depended on functionality (move, copy, resize) in parted that
>> no longer exists in parted-3.0.
> <snip>
>
> Removing features like this, without providing any kind of a replacement, is 
> a very unhelpful move from upstream.
>
>         Kevin Kofler

If I recall correctly, the code was removed because it was unmaintained.
Upstream may be willing to support these features again if somebody
steps up to maintain it.


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