FS#14745 - [qtparted] should be moved into community/AUR
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Opened by Devin Cofer (Ranguvar) - Monday, 18 May 2009, 01:32 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 02 June 2009, 12:39 GMT
Opened by Devin Cofer (Ranguvar) - Monday, 18 May 2009, 01:32 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 02 June 2009, 12:39 GMT
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Details
QtParted has not received an update since 2005, and is known
to be extremely buggy, dangerously so for such a potentially
deadly app
(http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68600
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=378697
,more if you look).
It should be moved into the community repo or the AUR in order to discourage users from trying it blindly, and not realizing that it is ancient and full of holes. And, it just seems like general good maintenance. The Ark Linux team has said they will maintain it, but the last SVN code update was in early 2008, and doesn't look big anyways. If we really want a Qt/KDE alternative to GParted in [extra], the partitionmanager AUR package should be put in when it reaches a stable 1.0. From what I can see it is already far more stable, and works with Qt4/KDE4 to boot. |
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Comment by
Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday,
21 May 2009, 20:24 GMT
If no objections are raised, qtparted will be dropped