> As you may know, Jens Schmalzing, the mol and mol-modules maiintainer died > tragicaly in july. I was led to believe that someone was interested in taking > over his packages, but since there was no upload since july, and mol-modules > where accumulating bug reports and blocking the 2.6.12-6 kernels (well, > blocking the removal of the older kernels), i decided to give a go at it.
madkiss sent an ITA to -devel and -powerpc (himself and a few other developers would work together on the package). I said I'd take the package if necessary. Have you contacted madkiss about the delays? > > mol-modules-2.6.12 is currently in NEW, but my packages can be found also on : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/mol > > If you want to go and grab them earlier, altough NEW processing should be > rather fast. > > I fixed mol so that it builds with gcc 4.0 and the new binutils in sid/etch, i > applied the patch Nicolas Det posted here recently so that it built with > kernels > 2.6.12, and i specially want to thank Nicolas Det for having tested > the packages, i don't think i would have had the courage to tackle this one > without his work. Thanks for putting in the time - I was not aware mol was causing trouble. > Now, i never use mol myself, so altough i am ok for doing pure kernel-related > packaging fixes, i am not ready at all to do day-to-day maintenance of the > packages, deal with feature request and all loads of non-packaging bug > reports, also no idea what upstrteam is about, doesn't seem active recently or > something. That's what I heard. Though we've seen a few impressive developments lately (such as aiport extreme). I need to contact Samuel to find out where development happens now. > So, i set up a mol project on alioth (well asked for it, not yet granted), and > will have a svn repo there, and i hope to find mol users here who are ready > to devote some time to test and help out or whatever. > > I will do my best to keep the packages in touch with the debian kernels, but i > am not monitoring the upstream devel tree, or aware of additional patches and > so on. Nor do i build modules myself outside of the official ones. > > Anyway, enjoy the packages, and if a few can be moved to contribute, that > would be very welcome. I'll try your package ASAP. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]