On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > Okay, in that case, I strongly disagree. That would be like saying > > the efforts to get it working until now are worthless. > > No, it would simply be a statement of fact. If d-i cannot be made to > support oldworld powerpc in time for etch despite everyone's work, then > it makes sense to document this.
I thought we were talking about dropping it, didn't we? If it is only to document it, saying it does not work properly yet, but will work for etch+1, it is completely fine with me. > > The individual behind debian-installer has already kicked out Sven > > without any concern for the PowerPC port well being. > > If a port cannot survive if one very disruptive and hard to work with > individual is kicked out of one project, then it has *very* big > problems. Well, I am very surprised every times someone says that. Sven is a person with who I work and I really enjoy it. He is very knowledgeable on *PowerPC* hardware, low-level programming, kernel packaging, d-i integration, and he has a global overview and understanding of the Debian PowerPC port. I fail to see another person like him being *currently* active in Debian/PowerPC at several levels and for all these years... Of course, I am sure there were people like this involved in the past. :) > > I sincerely hope I will succeed getting an access to the > > debian-installer SVN repository to work on miboot targets and on > > miboot-installer... > > It's trivial to get access to the d-i svn repository. Simply send > working patches to debian-boot, once we know you and your work you will > be added in short order. It is scheduled, ranting will not serve me anyway and made me felt stupid enough not to ever start again. I still hope not to be treated like Sven was for PowerPC-related work in d-i. We will see in some weeks whether or not I will end up getting bashed on debian-boot... Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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