Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 22:14:00 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > My intent in _this_ thread was to get a discussion among > debian-ports.org users started for best practices of how > to communicate with package maintainers in Debian. Sorry > for being unclear there. I had hoped for hints ☺ since I

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Finn Thain wrote: >> >Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was >> >> See the discussion in the thread before this message. > > I've seen no discussion of this on debian-68k or linux-m68k. What > discussion are you referring to? > > The subject of

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Banck dixit: >I am not sure which thread you are meaning, and in general, I think >discussing random Linux kernel config options on -ports is off-topic. Indeed, that wasn’t the intent of this thread. I’ve continued that particular discussion on debian-68k. My intent in _this_ thread was

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Finn Thain dixit: > > >Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was > > See the discussion in the thread before this message. I've seen no discussion of this on debian-68k or linux-m68k. What discussion are you referring to? The sub

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 04:47:30PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Finn Thain dixit: > > >Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was > > See the discussion in the thread before this message. I am not sure which thread you are meaning, and in general, I think discussing rand

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Finn Thain dixit: >Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was See the discussion in the thread before this message. >CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK disabled? It was never enabled. And that’s what you get when you let a BSD guy whose Linux experience dates back to 2.0.3[3-6] (and some 2.4.

Re: maintainer communication (was Re: Debian kernel regression, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III)

2013-12-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y and CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG=n Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK disabled? > I think we need to file bugs in the BTS for each of these instances in > the future, instead of trying