Gparted 0.25 in Ubuntu Artful is almost 2 years old and contains important bugs with fat32 resizing and LiveUSB

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Gparted 0.25 in Ubuntu Artful is 2 years old and contains important bugs with fat32 resizing and LiveUSB

Latest upstream Gparted is 0.28.1, this release contains lots of fixes, including fixed fat32 resizing and LP bug #1622313

See http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.php?item=all for more info what's improved since 0.25

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

gparted 0.28.1 will be available in Ubuntu 17.10 which will be released in October.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gparted - 0.28.1-0ubuntu1

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gparted (0.28.1-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1708184) (Closes: #857015)
    - Recognize the iso9660 filesystem (LP: #1622313)
  * Update debian/watch to watch for .gz or .xz tarballs too
  * Drop obsolete dirs, menu and .xpm
  * Drop gparted.postinst which fixed a mistake from Debian Lenny
  * Switch to simple dh7 style rules
  * Enable all hardening flags
  * Bump debhelper compat to 10
  * Update 02_use-pkexec.patch:
    - Refresh and let autoreconf update generated files

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:47:22 -0400