Wrong MBR partition alignment on 4K physical sector hard disks

[Manuel]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Select 4K sector hard disk
2) Select Format (Ctrl+F), Erase: Quick, Parititioning: MBR/DOS
3) Select Create New Partition, Erase: Quick, Type: Ext4
4) Run fdisk -l /dev/sdb: Partition 1 starts at 512 byte block #63, complains about partition not starting on physical sector boundary.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-33.44~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Apr 6 16:19:15 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-02-20 (1870 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100219)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-29 (372 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.