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                                            David Cantrell

use strdup instead of manual malloc+memcpy

I agree. The malloc+memcpy style is harder to read. Patch coming soon.

Exception when returning non-UTF-8 model names

All strings in Python 3 are Unicode which can be kind of a pain when coming from Python 2. In this case, the code you are looking at returns the...

Exception when returning non-UTF-8 model names

The version you're using is fine. I wrote pyparted and continue to be upstream. And I maintain the packages for it in Fedora, RHEL, and by extension CentOS. Installing from...

Pipy release

I no longer understand how to publish things in PyPI. I could figure it out [again], but I just haven't had time. At one point I noticed some random person...

Pipy release

I have reset my PyPI account and updated everything that was outdated on it and enabled 2FA. Next I need to read through how to set up GitHub publishing, but...

Ubuntu fixes

I am waiting on feedback for the review comments I left. If you can clean up the things I mentioned, I can merge this.

Not recognizing change in device capacity

Thanks for the report. It is odd behavior, but as you see through the C program, this is the same as what libparted does. Whether or not this is a...

Not recognizing change in device capacity

I would agree that not diverging from what libparted does is the better approach here. I used to be the upstream maintainer for parted and the code is esoteric. When...

Not recognizing change in device capacity

You have some contrib/ code and notes to add for this issue? Happy to merge what you have now with notes about the limitations and explaining the problem it addresses.

Cannot set partition name

That's true. Anything with Ped in the name is mapping down to libparted. The whole point of pyparted is to have a slightly higher level API for working with libparted....