[ACTION REQUIRED v4] Retiring packages for F-18

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 08:56:38 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:19:50AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > (I don't know if it'd make sense to bump parted to 3.1 in F17. Probably
> > not.)
> 
> Please no, it had changed that caused problems when it was bumped in
> rawhide that may or may not have been pulled back. I don't think it's
> worth the risk.

Actually parted 3.1 fixes a major bug in 3.0: that it sends error
messages to stdout which makes it virtually impossible to parse the
output of the parted command in programs (RHBZ#745606).

Rich.

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