On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:34:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:39:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken > > > > since > > > > almost a month, > > > > > > FYI I expect to be able to get this issue sorted out today/tomorrow. I > > > was somewhat behind on debian-boot@ mail and hadn't realised it was a > > > problem until aj drew my attention to it. > > > > The last successfull build was on april 1, some 26 days ago or so. > > Yeah, I know. That should be fixed with (a) me biting the bullet and > updating my build machine over the modular X hill and (b) the d-i and
Maybe not kicking maintainers out would have helped too. > debian-cd changes I committed over the last hour or two. I hadn't been > paying attention to CD build logs; I'll know to do so in the future. Cool. Still, i feel that this is the kind of responsabilities the d-i team leader has to take over, and keep the oversight on the situation on all arches, not just his pet ones. > (Until mkvmlinuz figures out how to deal with prep on >= 2.6.16, of > course, the powerpc CDs won't have prep support.) Its not a mkvmlinuz problem, the problem is in the kernel itself, and will probably be fixed for 2.6.17. I am watching this, and will try to do a backport if something promising comes on. Not sure i will have the time to fix it myself though. > > Do you think that you will have the time and ressource to do a good job of > > powerpc maintainership on d-i in the future ? > > I should think so. My main problem of late has been an excess of broken > CD drives on machines I care about (explaining why I wasn't paying > attention to the CD builds), but I need to sort that out soon anyway. This kind of thing should be automated, i believe that back in the days, joeyh had a some tool to check for those, this could easily enough be used as a way to aler the right people of failures of this kind. > Obviously without having all the subarchitectures myself I can't do it > entirely myself, and I welcome being pointed at bug reports I haven't > noticed especially from users of those subarchitectures; but assuming > continued kernel support I should be able to keep the existing set more > or less going. Yeah, the problem with debian/powerpc, is that most users will mostly give up or try to hack a problem their own way (or ping me on irc or send me personal mails), than go through the proper channels, so there is need for a more pro-active kind of powerpc maintainership here. > That's not to say, of course, that fresh porting blood wouldn't be a > good thing. Well, we should start by not kicking out people, would make this less of a problem :/ BTW, what is your position on the yaboot orphaning ? You sound like the more likely candidate to take that one over, altough i guess this means only one more thing to worry for your ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
