Re: Replacing fdisk by cfdisk?
Vincent Renardias wrote:
> Since fdisk has been declared 'obsolete and unmaintained' by its upstream
> maintainer (Andries Brouwer), I'm considering removing it, and putting a
> link pointing to cfdisk instead.
> Does anybody see a technical objection to this? (like some non-i386 arch
> where fdisk works but not cfdisk)
> Also, there are several old bug reports against cfdisk complaining about
> the fact it doesn't support BSD slices. Does anybody know if this has
> changed? (I don't use BSD and don't have any machine where I can test
> this)
Unless cfdisk comes with a proper interface or fdisk is so broken and
unfixable I object. Using cfdisk is a pain for me and even worse it
can't handle all situations - fdisk can handle more.
Debian comes with a bunch of packages that aren't maintained upstream
anymore. This is not too much of a problem if the Debian maintainer
is willing to continue maintenance and act sort of like the upstream
maintainer.
Regards,
Joey
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