See below. I claim Herbert Xu to decide not reasonable in this issue, working against §4 of the social contract. Please decide wise and force him to change the current situation.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161931&repeatmerged=yes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134220&repeatmerged=yes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=104101&repeatmerged=yes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123987&repeatmerged=yes Regards, Eduard. ----- Forwarded message from Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:14:58 +1000 From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#161931: kernel-image-2.4.19-k7: VESA driver for console To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] reassign 161931 kernel merge 104101 161931 quit On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:27:50PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Oh Herbert, we have had this discussion in the past. There is no real > reason for not using VESA framebuffer. It does not hurt (*). It is not > enabled by default. It just uses few kilobytes of the kernel image, > space that almost nobody would cry about. And without VESA fb in the > kernel, people would see a black screen after changing from some custom > kernel to one of yours. I have made my position quite clear. The more you bitch about it, the lower this gets on my todo list. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Erwerbsregel 177: Wisse, wer deine Feinde sind. Dann beute sie aus
