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Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi di
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels] |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:17:25 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:05:08AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> Hi,
> calling the SGI disklabels mips disklabels is incorrect since only SGI
> based mips machines use these disklabels (no other mips based machines
> use this kind of disklabels - and there are lots of them). Better names
> would be either Irix or SGI disklabels (fdisk uses both names). Attached
> patch changes the name in the package descriptions to SGI and in
> libparted itself to 'sgi-mips'. Any chance to change the name?
> Regards,
> -- Guido
Ralf told me that MIPS (the company?) created the format... that was
the rationale. I guess SGI is probably a more user-friendly name?
Ralf: what do you think?
Cheers,
Andrew
- address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Timshel Knoll, 2002/12/12
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels],
Andrew Clausen <=
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Ralf Baechle, 2002/12/12
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Andrew Clausen, 2002/12/13
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Ralf Baechle, 2002/12/13
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Guido Guenther, 2002/12/14
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Andrew Clausen, 2002/12/14
- Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels], Ralf Baechle, 2002/12/15