GNU parted is outdated

It's also important for us to be in sync with Debian here (since that allows us to take advantage of debian-installer team effort to keep related installer code in sync), and so we won't make this change until Debian does. This is in progress in experimental, but may not land in unstable until after Lenny is released.

This bug was fixed in the package parted - 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7ubuntu1

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parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian (LP: #237568). Remaining changes:
    - swap-uuid.dpatch: Create UUIDs on new swap partitions.
    - gptsync.dpatch: On Intel Mac systems, write a synced MBR rather than a
      protective MBR.
    - Add -fno-stack-protector on sparc.
    - sparc-new-label.dpatch: Fix sparc disk label generation. This is
      required for LDOM and parallel installations with Solaris 10.
    - loop-partitions.dpatch: Loop devices can only have one partition, so
      don't generate device names such as "/dev/loop0p1".
    - unpartitioned-disks.dpatch: Don't try to call BLKPG ioctls on
      unpartitionable disks (only implemented for loop devices at the
      moment), as they will always fail.
    - When building with gcc-4.3, add -Wno-array-bounds to CFLAGS.
    - Cell partition tables are misdetected as pc98, so disable pc98 support
      on powerpc.
    - array-bounds.dpatch: Backport patch from git to allow building with
      gcc-4.3.

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-6) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Give the parted udeb a menu item number. This allows it to be
    selected manually in anna. Update the udeb description for
    consistency and remove the long description to save space. Thanks to
    Frans Pop <email address hidden> (closes: #466826).

  [ Jim Meyering ]
  * test for improved DOS-partition-table recognition

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * bug fix: improve DOS partition table recognition

  [ Jim Meyering ]
  * avoid const-related compiler warnings

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-5) experimental; urgency=low

  * Disable LVM support for dasd labels

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-4) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * properly test for __s390__ and __s390x__ macros to disable O_DIRECT
    on that

  [ Matt Davis ]
  * Corrected a few memory leaks from unallocated ped_unit_format calls.
  * Corrected memory leak when displaying partition flags.
  * Corrected a small memory leak when displaying partition information

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * do not loop in case message exception has no message
  * fix memory leak in exception handler
  * Ensure that autoreconf uses aclocal 1.0

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-3) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Otavio Salvador ]
  * Bump version to 1.8.9 since it broke ABI interface
  * Ensure that autoreconf uses automake 1.10
  * Add debian/libparted-i18n.files and debian/libparted-dev.files
    removed by mistake
  * Change soname and dependency requirements due ABI change

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Add support for GRUB / BIOS partition in GPT.

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-2) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Bastian Blank ]
  * Fix syntax error.
  * Use host_cpu for s390 check.

  [ Jim Meyering ]
  * Fix a typo: s/to defragmenting/to defragment/, Remove trailing
    blanks.
  * Don't write into line[-1] when line starts with a NUL byte.

parted (1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Cyril Brulebois ]
  * debian/rules:
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