Comment 2 for bug 362466

Good news: this should already be fixed by a change I made yesterday, since I ran into a similar problem myself. This change isn't in live CDs yet, but it will be by this weekend or so. Here's the commit message:

revno: 3219
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: ubiquity
timestamp: Wed 2009-04-15 14:18:19 +0100
message:
  Fix stripping of '=dev=' from device names when creating partition bars
  to avoid reducing e.g. '=dev=vda' to 'a'.