Upgrade GParted to version 0.33

It seems this bug is a duplicate of bug #74584

Please update GParted ASAP. As Graphical installer (ubiquity) doesn't use GParted anymore, it's pretty safe to update GParted to new upstream version even if we now are in upstream version freeze.

Updating gparted to new version (released on 2006-09-04) will fix lots of important (dataloss) bugs, look at the release notes (http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=444805&group_id=115843 , http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=446553&group_id=115843 , http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=467985&group_id=115843 , http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=115843&release_id=469155), also bugs like #54119, #37768, #86851

Btw, you should patch upstream solution of bug #37768, because it's sort of "dirty hack" (look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324220#c38 for more info):

 Comment #36 from A. Murat Eren (points: 0)
2007-02-19 11:30 UTC [reply]

I'd like to add some extra information. [When Gparted starts it creates]
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi file, [which] causes some problems as you suspected before. Sometimes it remains there even GParted is not running anymore. Because of this file, HAL doesn't automount USB devices properly.

There are similar bug reports in both Fedora's and Pardus's bug tracking systems (I know there is a FIXME in the code, I just wanted to imply that it really needs to be fixed ;)).

Gparted 3.3.2 is now in Gutsy. We will not be backporting a version upgrade to any of the stable releases, sorry.

Please, backport new Gparted from Ubuntu Gutsy - this would fix lots if critical/dataloss and other bugs, like bugs #120609, #94813 #86851 and #37768
Unofficial Gparted 0.3.3 packages for Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty are available at http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=GNOME+Partition+Editor

b/i/r in prevu

+1 for me -- the installer no longer depends on gparted, and gparted needs all the help it can get.

Diff between gutsy and feisty is pretty big; IMO fat chance it'll ever get through SRU :D

Gparted packages for Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty", backported from Ubuntu Gutsy (with help of new launchpad's Personal Package Archive system) are available at

http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/mantas/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gparted/
( apt source is deb http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/mantas/ubuntu/ feisty main )

Build logs are available at
https://dogfood.launchpad.net/~mantas/+archive/+builds?build_state=built&build_text=gparted

Btw, maybe we should 'officially' allow to use launchpad's Personal Package Archive system - PPA (not only prevu) for testing backports?

We will not be backporting this to Feisty.