Control: reassign -1 src:aranym Control: retitle -1 'aranym: Older versions of Aranym crash in atari_scsi with newer kernels'
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:03:04PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > Hm, true. Unfortunately, I cannot upgrade ARAnyM until I get a newer > > kernel provided to Zigo’s domU (or switched to pvgrub-xen). > > > > The aranym fix was merged upsteam by Andreas Schwab on 2016-03-20. > https://sourceforge.net/p/aranym/code/ci/7af1cbfc5257d2c524ffe009790045d687c69fa5/ > > If you can't upgrade your emulator, why not ask the aranym maintainers to > backport the fix? If there is a fix already in Aranym, I don't think we should add any quirks to the kernel. I haven't actually run into the problem myself as the Aranym version on my laptop is recent enough. And since there is a simple work-around for those who are not able to upgrade their version of Aranym yet, I don't think further action is required. > > >This BTS entry should be reassigned to the aranym package. It's a > > > > Unclear about that. Yes, there’s an emulator bug, but does that mean > > there’s nothing to be done in the kernel? > > > > You just have to pursuade one of the driver maintainers that there is a > real need. > > Michael Schmitz and I are the maintainers for the upstream driver, and > eighteen months ago he and I were in agreement: "Making the 5380 emulation > a bit more complete such as in the MAME source snippet would be my > preference". So that's what was done. I agree with you and Michael. If the kernel behaves fine on real hardware, there is no point in trying to fix the bug there. > > I will just leave that to the parties responsible. > > > > Fair enough. We could just ask the maintainer of the Aranym package to provide an updated version in Debian Backports. Re-assigning in any case. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
