Comment 8 for bug 47055

This is fixed, after a fashion. The partitioner no longer offers the opportunity to explicitly create an extended partition; you can create primary or logical partitions, and it will do whatever it needs to do in terms of extended partitions. Thus there is no longer a conflict between an explicit user request and what the partitioner does.

I don't plan to restore the ability to explicitly lay out extended partitions. It isn't necessary in an installer context, and as I noted it is trivial to resize extended partitions provided that there is some adjacent unpartitioned space. I have never heard of a real case where this caused a problem for automatic or OEM installations, and I've dealt with a lot of those.