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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #766265
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 766265

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 766265] Re: Ubiquity proceeds to use free space without warning

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:47:31AM -0000, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> Why would we treat free-space with less regard than an actual disc?
>
> I very seriously think the best "fix" to this is to present another
> "page" just as we do with a resize or use entire.

The problem is basically that the backend code would have to be
completely refactored to make this possible, because we're piggybacking
off existing code that only presents a single way to use free space -
changing that is a large job and I'm afraid we aren't going to have time
to do that for precise (we're low on installer development time for this
cycle and only have time for targeted fixes, not substantial feature
work).