kde partitionmanager missing dependency on fdisk

[Erich Eickmeyer]

KDE's partitionmanager now requires a dependency on fdisk for any functionality related to the display of devices or partitions of a disk. While prior versions did not require this, it seems as though 23.08 does.

This was first reported on IRC in #kubuntu-devel.

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

I suspect (as discussed on IRC) that this is not a new dependency for partition manager, but the result of fdisk falling off a standard install.

i.e. from this change from debian first shipping in mantic:

libblockdev (3.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop fdisk Depends from libblockdev-part.
    It only needs the library, not the command line tools.

https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/libblockdev/-/commit/a80898dd1409d45505fcbb55ae26308fde12b727

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package partitionmanager - 23.08.1-0ubuntu2

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partitionmanager (23.08.1-0ubuntu2) mantic; urgency=medium

  * d/control: add new Depends: fdisk (LP: #2037826)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:55:03 -0700