Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-10-01 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On 29.09.2013 07:34, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:32:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > (.

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:32:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau > > > wrote: > > > > (...) > > > > xserver-xorg-video-sis >

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > (...) > > > xserver-xorg-video-sis > > > (...) > > The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufactu

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Hey, Op 28-09-13 17:16, Bob Tracy schreef: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> (...) >>> xserver-xorg-video-sis >>> (...) > The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufacturers of > relative

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
Off the top of my head, my Sun E3500 (8x 64-bit SPARC CPUs) has an SBUS graphics adapter that is one of those cg{N} adapters, but honestly, Linux support for E3500 is shoddy at best, so it's fine by me. Patrick On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:2

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > (...) > > xserver-xorg-video-sis > > (...) The SiS chipset was, unfortunately, really popular with manufacturers of relatively expensive micro PeeCees (EzGo, Jadetec, etc.),

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi, > > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care > of them. The reason is they see 0 testing, nobody maintains them > upstream, if you'r

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:26:22 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > xserver-xorg-video-s3 I'd vote for this one, but I can't maintain it, unfortunately. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 19:27:37 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 23:26:22 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following > > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care > > of them. >

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 23:26:22 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following > packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care > of them. I assume here you mean maintaining them in Debian (or perhaps upstream too?)

Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-26 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, we (the debian X Strike Force) are thinking of removing the following packages from the archive, unless somebody steps up (soon) to take care of them. The reason is they see 0 testing, nobody maintains them upstream, if you're lucky people keep some of them building when APIs change, if you'r