Manpage for mkefs.hfsplus refers to pdisk, which is not packaged

[Lars Noodén]

Binary package hint: hfsprogs

The manpage for mke.hfsplus has a SEE ALSO section which refers to pdisk(8)

There is no man page for pdisk or pdisk(8)
apt-cache cannot find 'pdisk'

This is from Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 as provided by kubuntu-kde4-8.04-alternate-amd64.iso and subsequent updates

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Thansk for reporting bugs, but this one does not appear to be in Ubuntu. The newfs_hfs command is not part of the hfsprogs package, and actually I don't think you can find it in Ubuntu packages: it's from Apple's HFS+. So the bug is not from Ubuntu, I close it.

As a sidenote, it seems pdisk is not shipped by Ubuntu nor by Debian. So the needed tool would be pmac-fdisk (hope this helps).

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Sorry. I was thinking 'mkfs.hfsplus' but wrote instead 'newfs_hfs'. mkfs.hfsplus is definitely part of Ubuntu, at least as of Hardy:

 $ dpkg -S mkfs.hfsplus
 hfsprogs: /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.hfsplus.8.gz
 hfsprogs: /sbin/mkfs.hfsplus

 $ lsb_release -rc
 Release: 8.04
 Codename: hardy

pdisk is mentioned in the manpage for mkfs.hfsplus:

   "SEE ALSO
        mount(8), pdisk(8)"

You're right about pdisk not being in debian, though:

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=pdisk&mode=exactfilename&suite=unstable&arch=any

So the solution is to either remove the mention of pdisk, to add it to ubuntu, or to point to where it can be downloaded.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

This should be reported to Debian, no need to make a Ubuntu-only fix. Would you do this? Else I'm afraid nothing will happen...

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Hmmm. The package 'reportbug' is reliant on an SMTP connection, which is not common any more. A new version should have the option for HTTP-POST or GET.

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Ok. Now I will get more spam because of Bill Gates' botnets harvesting the unobfuscated addresses from the Debian bug tracker:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482868

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Thanks. Sorry for the spam, but that's how Debian works, and you see they are more efficient than us in that area. ;-)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hfsprogs - 332.14-5

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hfsprogs (332.14-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches: break-up the Gentoo patch into smaller patches.
  * debian/patches: reorder the patches.
  * debian/patches: refresh the patches.
  * debian/patches: remove mention of pdisk (Closes: #482868) (LP: #234749).
  * debian/control: include Homepage field.
  * debian/control: update Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No changes required.
  * debian/control: include DM-Upload-Allowed, as I am a DM now.
  * debian/control: remove statement about using journals (LP: #164151).
  * debian/rules: add -Wextra compilation flag.
  * debian/rules: use quilt.make and remove home-brew solution.
  * debian/watch: create watch file (lintian warning).

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