Update gparted to 0.30.0
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Authored by kyrios123 on Aug 7 2017, 8:04 PM.

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R1042:166b8464adce: Update gparted to 0.30.0

Summary

This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

Interim fix for GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
Fix reading Unicode labels when no FS specific tools available
Safely quote and escape external programs arguments
Add support for UDF file system
Fix segmentation fault on disk with corrupted FAT file system
Fix snap-to-alignment of operations creating partitions

See the Release Notes for version 0.29 and 0.30 for more details.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves <pyu@riseup.net>

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creation of a partitions on a usb stick
check polkit authentication

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kyrios123 created this revision.Aug 7 2017, 8:04 PM

Herald added a reviewer: Triage Team. · View Herald TranscriptAug 7 2017, 8:04 PM

bump to version 0.30.0

Regarding the changes in the package:

--enable-xhost-root is an interim workaround to allow GParted to run under Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the X11 display.
Polkit related patches have been dropped because Pkexec from polkit has been made the first choice graphical SU program. Also changed is that execution of the graphical SU program has been moved from gparted.desktop to the gparted shell wrapper. Therefore gparted can be run either by an unprivileged user or by root and as such is installed in $prefix/bin rather than $prefix/sbin. This additionally means distributions can drop their pkexec scripts used to launch gparted.

@JoshStrobl you may want to check this on your Wayland machine (I only got X11 installed)

Fix polkit policy

I made many tests: with shutdown, connecting usb storage, etc...
I also made a couple of tests to partition/format/check a usb drive after waiting 5 minutes to make sure it did not fails because of dropped privileges

kyrios123 added a reviewer: ikey.Oct 11 2017, 4:15 PM

kyrios123 mentioned this in D1203: Update gparted to 0.30.0.Oct 13 2017, 9:48 PM

DataDrake accepted this revision.Feb 24 2018, 5:09 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 24 2018, 5:09 PM

Closed by commit R1042:166b8464adce: Update gparted to 0.30.0 (authored by kyrios123, committed by DataDrake). · Explain WhyFeb 24 2018, 6:40 PM

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