[Bug 1046391] Re: please package newer upstream release of parted

[Guilhem Lettron]

sorry but the commit who activate the 1M alignment is this one :
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=c749046a54d983f74f8156c0aea71b0995b9477d

And I don't see anything like this in source and patches (maybe I'm
wrong, but it's hidden)

To be more precise, I do my own package (parted 3.1, a future ppa will come) and I _really_ see different when use with ubuntu-vm-builder :
In the current case, I have a disk with 4k block, my partition is 512 align and my VM is 512 align! (you see the problem I hope)

Here is for example a (bad) workaround : http://bazaar.launchpad.net
/~guilhem-fr/vmbuilder/parted/revision/484

I understand the problem with 2 different versions. But when you see the
parted changelog, it's unbelievable to keep an old / patchy version of
somethings so central in a Linux distribution (and to see fedora with
3.1 and debian with 2.3 while it's a debian project...)

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Title:
  please package newer upstream release of parted

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “parted” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Parted package version is 2.3

  3 new versions are out since 2.3 (2.4 3.0 and 3.1).

  Why not upgrading it ? Many work have been done on EPT and that can be
  a good improvement for everybody.

  another things : 2.4 default align to 1MiB, that can be a HUGE boost in performance for every disk with 4K block. (gparted do the same since ages).
  (and I can't list all of them)

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