Re: http://debian.linuxwiki.de/DebianKernel_2fPlan

2004-06-03 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:41:20PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:52:15AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: I believe its a greater maintenance mess to attempt to keep them united. I can be more confident that upstream's ia64 arch patch will apply reasonably well to

Re: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 10:55]: Bear in mind that violating the DFSG is a release-critical bug, whereas disabling upstream drivers is not. And AFAIK disabling tainted drivers is a trivial task, but splitting the binary-only blobs into non-free isn't. Therefore if the latter

Re: Bug#240812: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:34:22AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: What's the status with these bugs? There are 5 reported violations of the DFSG, from 65 to 53 days old. William, you're the current maintainer of the Debian packaged version of Linux (well, technicaly not yet, but I'm told

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:30:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, it would just be a unified repository where all the kernels packages would be held, and which would make migration of patches from the arch packages to the common package more easy, provided a modern revision system is used, i

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:30:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, it would just be a unified repository where all the kernels packages would be held, and which would make migration of patches from the arch packages to the

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:21:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, you can check in the compressed tarball, in order to be sure it doesn't get lost or something. Less of a concern for kernel sources than random assorted packages though. OK.. detail. The common .config bit is of course also

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:19:56PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:21:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: detail. The common .config bit is of course also important! I'd love to move the fragments infrastructure of the 2.6 kernel-patch-powerpc to the generic

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:46:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Fine with me. So let's create an alitoh project for the kernel, and a subversion repo. Anyone is already looking into this ? Ok, Martin? For 2.2/2.4 let's follow his suggestion to not do any major changes, let's just try to move

Re: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 13:25]: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:09:49AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 10:55]: Bear in mind that violating the DFSG is a release-critical bug, whereas disabling upstream drivers is not. And AFAIK

Re: Bug#240812: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:11:01PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I thought that the upcoming GR vote would have an effect on their RC status. That is the reason why I did not act on them while I was still maintaining these packages. As a volunteer you can always take the decision of not acting.

Re: Bug#240812: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 13:55]: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:11:01PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I thought that the upcoming GR vote would have an effect on their RC status. That is the reason why I did not act on them while I was still maintaining these packages. However,

Re: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Unless I'm missing something, the release manager doesn't have the authority to override the Social Contract (1.1) that was ratified by GR in April. You might have missed GR 2004-003, and the discussions therein. GR 2004-003

Re: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 14:25]: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: There are proposals to override the SC for the release of sarge. Please answer this: Since you agree with proposals for future versions of the Social Contract and disagree

Re: Bug#240812: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 02:02:53PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 13:55]: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:11:01PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I thought that the upcoming GR vote would have an effect on their RC status. That is the reason why I did not act

Re: Bug#240812: RC bugs in Linux

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 16:25]: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 02:02:53PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040603 13:55]: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:11:01PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I thought that the upcoming GR vote would have an

Bug#252466: initrd-tools: mkinitrd fails to add via82cxxx module on powerpc/pegasos, and thus there is no ide driver loaded.

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.70 Severity: important On powerpc/pegasos, when creating a initrd from the kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc kernel image, mkinitrd fails to make the initrd load the via8cxxx module. The initrd is thus unable to mount the filesystem, since there are no ide drivers,

Re: http://debian.linuxwiki.de/DebianKernel_2fPlan

2004-06-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First time I see this wiki page. Comments: new naming scheme getting rid of image as part or package names (only for Provides: - compatibility issues), instead, distinguishing between linux and hurd. First idea: linux-kernel-source-KVERS

Re: http://debian.linuxwiki.de/DebianKernel_2fPlan

2004-06-03 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [snip] linux-kernel-KVERS-ARCH(-SUBVERS) (plus extras, see below) remov the -kernel, linux is the kernel, and upstream tarballs are linux-$version, too. remove the -arch, it'll be .$arch.deb anyway, rather add a -flavour. What do you name