This bug was fixed in the package parted - 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7ubuntu1

---------------
parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian (LP: #237568). Remaining changes:
    - swap-uuid.dpatch: Create UUIDs on new swap partitions.
    - gptsync.dpatch: On Intel Mac systems, write a synced MBR rather than a
      protective MBR.
    - Add -fno-stack-protector on sparc.
    - sparc-new-label.dpatch: Fix sparc disk label generation. This is
      required for LDOM and parallel installations with Solaris 10.
    - loop-partitions.dpatch: Loop devices can only have one partition, so
      don't generate device names such as "/dev/loop0p1".
    - unpartitioned-disks.dpatch: Don't try to call BLKPG ioctls on
      unpartitionable disks (only implemented for loop devices at the
      moment), as they will always fail.
    - When building with gcc-4.3, add -Wno-array-bounds to CFLAGS.
    - Cell partition tables are misdetected as pc98, so disable pc98 support
      on powerpc.
    - array-bounds.dpatch: Backport patch from git to allow building with
      gcc-4.3.

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-6) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Give the parted udeb a menu item number. This allows it to be
    selected manually in anna. Update the udeb description for
    consistency and remove the long description to save space. Thanks to
    Frans Pop <email address hidden> (closes: #466826).

  [ Jim Meyering ]
  * test for improved DOS-partition-table recognition

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * bug fix: improve DOS partition table recognition

  [ Jim Meyering ]
  * avoid const-related compiler warnings

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-5) experimental; urgency=low

  * Disable LVM support for dasd labels

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-4) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * properly test for __s390__ and __s390x__ macros to disable O_DIRECT
    on that

  [ Matt Davis ]
  * Corrected a few memory leaks from unallocated ped_unit_format calls.
  * Corrected memory leak when displaying partition flags.
  * Corrected a small memory leak when displaying partition information

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * do not loop in case message exception has no message
  * fix memory leak in exception handler
  * Ensure that autoreconf uses aclocal 1.0

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-3) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Bump version to 1.8.9 since it broke ABI interface
  * Ensure that autoreconf uses automake 1.10
  * Add debian/libparted-i18n.files and debian/libparted-dev.files
    removed by mistake
  * Change soname and dependency requirements due ABI change

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Add support for GRUB / BIOS partition in GPT.

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-2) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Bastian Blank ]
  * Fix syntax error.
  * Use host_cpu for s390 check.

  [ Jim Meyering ]
  * Fix a typo: s/to defragmenting/to defragment/, Remove trailing
    blanks.
  * Don't write into line[-1] when line starts with a NUL byte.

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Cyril Brulebois ]
  * debian/rules:
     - add “-fgnu89-inline” to “CFLAGS” and “UDEB_CFLAGS” to fix FTBFS
       (Closes: #442308).
  * debian/control.in:
     - make the packages binNMU-safe by using binary:Version and
       source:Version instead of Source-Version.

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Really duplicate disks instead of readd each partition so it preserves
    the ordering and like (Closes: #294520).
  * Point to GPL-3 instead of including it since it is now available.
  * Package Patches:
    - lvm2.dpatch: droped, equivalent code merged upstream;

parted (1.8.7.git.2007.07.30-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.

  [ Xavier Oswald ]
  * debian/README.Debian updated
  * debian/parted-doc.docs updated

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Package Patches:
    - doc-package.dpatch: redone from scratch;
    - s390.dpatch: dropped, equivalent code merged upstream;
    - parted-print-name.dpatch: likewise.
    - errors-to-stderr.dpatch: likewise.
    - devfs.dpatch: rediff.
    - sparc-fix-raid.dpatch: likewise.
    - lvm2.dpatch: readd the missing parts for the LVM partitions
      probing;
  * debian/rules:
    - configure called with --enable-device-mapper to include
      device-mapper support in;
    - build gnulib when building udeb and debugging packages otherwise
      they'd fail;
    - change soname version;
  * debian/control:
    - add libdevmapper-dev as build-dependency;
    - add pkg-config as build-dependency;
    - cleanup udeb dependencies. Thanks to Frans Pop <email address hidden>
      by the patch; (Closes: #419609)
  * debian/watch: use the GNU ftp since the HTTP address was giving
    timeout;
  * debian/libparted-dev.files: stop to provide parted.m4 but provides
    pkgconfig, instead;
  * debian/parted-doc.docs: drop COPYING;
  * debian/copyright: updated since parted is now licensed on GPL3;
  * debian/rules: change package names to follow soname;

parted (1.8.1~git1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New git snapshot
  * doc-package.dpatch: removed hunk that was merge upstream;
  * debian/copyright: update FSF address;
  * debian/control.in, debian/rules: bump automake requirement to 1.10;
  * debian/patches/00list: disabled kfreebsd support by now;

parted (1.8.0~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * doc-package.dpatch: fixed file paths;
  * devfs.dpatch: minor change to make it apply again since linux.c had
    its #includes massively changed;
  * lvm2.dpatch: removed since upstream version now has device-manager
    support natively;
  * s390.dpatch: removed since upstream version now has device-manager
    support natively;
  * parted.files: we're not installing pt_BR manpage anymore since it
    needs to be updated to new translation systems that is being use in
    Parted now;

  [ Xavier Oswald ]
  * add po4a as build-dependancy.
  * Adding myself as comaintainer of the package.
  * policy 3.7.2

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:31:05 +0100