libparted needs support for setting the type GUID to an arbitrary value for gpt labels

[Łukasz Zemczak]

libparted tries to be as much label-agnostic as possible, but sometimes it's required that a selected partition has the partition type set to an *exact* GUID value. Currently the only way to modify the type GUID for parts in the gpt label is to change the partition-specific flags which in the end causes the GUID to change. There are no API calls that would allow to set the type to an arbitrary value.

This is a bit troublesome as other partitioning tools like sfdisk or sgdisk allow setting the GUID to any acceptable value.

It would be best if libparted gained the same ability as it's bindings are available for multiple languages.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

I wanted to fill in a bug upstream but I can't seem to be able to find the official upstream bugtracker...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package parted - 3.6-3

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parted (3.6-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * align-new-partitions-on-fresh-disks.patch:
    - Fix NULL dereference on error path.
    - Don't try to align partitions if no constraint was passed.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 23:34:57 +0100