Hello Steve,
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:42:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:56:45PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> I took a peek upstream and found that at least part of this was addressed
> already back in 2003 in the sf cvs tree, so I've gone ahead and merged
> across from there to the alioth cvs tree as a new vendor import; this

Thanks!

> userspace -- the only reason asm/system.h is useful to aboot is because
> aboot is a bootloader, and that's not really the use case for
> linux-libc-dev.

Yes, thats why I was a little skeptical to plainly look for inclusion.

> This is all in the Debian CVS repo now, and I've also uploaded a source
> package to <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/aboot/>.

I'll have a look at it over the weekend and then see that I get a new
release prepared (which I intended to do anyhow).

> > [1] Last time I checked, upstream no longer responded, but I still
> >     have access to the sf repository, so including fixes upstream
> >     could be possible :-))
> 
> It doesn't look like you're a project admin, though, so you can't grant
> anyone else access.  Can you do file releases?  It might be a good idea to

Honestly I've never looked at those details before, as I never
intended to release something.

> have some sort of release tarball for aboot after the current round of
> clean-ups.  My merge corresponds to what upstream labelled as version
> "1.0_pre20040408", but there was never a file release for it...

Once everything is cleaned out for Debian I'll have a look what I can
do at SF, maybe I even reach upstream again.

Greetings & Thanks once more

                Helge

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