Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The kernel freeze must be delayed quite significantly for a fairly obvious reason: the Debian kernel *still* has a lot of non-free and sourceless firmware in it. Unfortunately, little to no progress has been made on this. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is pretty obvious from

Bug#381242: linux-source-2.6.17: Documentation for MTD_NAND in .config contains broken link

2006-08-02 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
Package: linux-source-2.6.17 Version: 2.6.17-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch The provided link to get more information from, http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/nand.html, is broken. I did some researching and I think they moved the link to http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/archive/tech/n

Processed: your mail

2006-08-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > submitter 375035 ! Bug#375035: Kernel 2.6.16 attempts to access root device before running initramfs init Changed Bug submitter from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > submitter 369303 ! Bug#369303: [powerpc] On oldwo

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-02 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:06:23AM +, Bastian Blank wrote: > If you want to be correct, you can't use linux-source. So the security > team have to support another kernel source. A kernel-patch package that applies on top of the kernel team's linux-source is the approach I'd suggest. But to rei

Bug#380686: initramfs-tools: busybox mount doesn't support nfs

2006-08-02 Thread vagrant+bugs
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:35:25PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:57:02AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > well, my ugly workaround was to add a hook that installs /bin/mount to > > /mount, and hack /usr/share/ltsp/scripts/nfs to use /mount directly. > > > > not at

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How big is the patchset these days, and what does it touch? I haven't > messed with Lustre since 2.4.20 where the core patches were mostly > adding intents, etc - stuff that I thought had been merged upstream in > 2.6. There still is a lot of patching in

Bug#381171: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7: Not all Sound/Alsa devices are created properly under /dev/snd

2006-08-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 Version: 2.6.16-17 Severity: important Hello, I have the problem that the sound doesn't work with kernel 2.6.16, whereas it works perfectly with 2.6.15. As you can see from the attached outputs, the drivers loaded are the same, but certain devices just don't get

Re: svn /patch-tracking/

2006-08-02 Thread Willi Mann
I've found http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/patch-tracking/ a really useful way of knowing what the kernel team thinks about kernel vulnerabilities. But it seems to have gone away. Has it moved somewhere else, or is there a better way for me to check debians position against http://svn.debian

Re: Decision about oot-modules for etch

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Can you make an announcement to all oot-module maintainers, telling them > that they should put their packages together into linux-modules-extra > (for main) or a similar one for contrib, and if they're not doing it, > they will end up in an unsupported (no updates for point

Bug#295678: PAE support in Debian kernel images..

2006-08-02 Thread Andre Tomt
I'd like to see it as a flavour. This is also how pretty much every other noteworthy distribution is doing it (a -bigsmp or -pae flavour, so there is some precedence.) You'd be surprised on how many PAE needing servers there are in enterprises. Having no officially supported kernel images for

Bug#381009: marked as done (usplash: Should run during the entire shutdown sequence)

2006-08-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#380745: marked as done (usplash: Make it easier to backport to sarge)

2006-08-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:59:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Now to my question. Lustre needs a specialy patched kernel Why? Ah I see, they don't know how to abstract that and get informations how to do that properly from upstream. >

usplash_0.3d_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-08-02 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: usplash_0.3d.dsc to pool/main/u/usplash/usplash_0.3d.dsc usplash_0.3d.tar.gz to pool/main/u/usplash/usplash_0.3d.tar.gz usplash_0.3d_i386.deb to pool/main/u/usplash/usplash_0.3d_i386.deb Override entries for your package: usplash_0.3d.dsc - source misc usplash_0.3d_i386.deb - opt

Bug#381108: marked as done (upslash not installable: usplash.postinst: 43: rm_default_artwork: not found)

2006-08-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#381108: upslash not installable: usplash.postinst: 43: rm_default_artwork: not found

2006-08-02 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: usplash Version: 0.3b Severity: important On fresh install it gave: /var/lib/dpkg/info/usplash.postinst: 43: rm_default_artwork: not found -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (670, 'proposed-updates'), (670, 'stable'), (620, 'testing

Bug#381104: usplash: 15 second timeout is sometimes not enough

2006-08-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: usplash Version: 0.3a Severity: minor At the moment, usplash have a 15 second timeout. If no command is sent to usplash for 15 seconds, it terminates and return to the text console. When using usplash in qemu on my laptop, it sometimse take more than 15 seconds between such commands du

Bug#381102: mismatching address space size

2006-08-02 Thread walter franzini
Package: linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp Version: 2.6.16-17 While (re)compiling the VMWare-Player module I get the following error: -- acer:~# uname -a Linux acer 2.6.16-2-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 22:33:00 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux acer:~# vmware-config.pl .

Processing of usplash_0.3d_i386.changes

2006-08-02 Thread Archive Administrator
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