On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:52:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:44:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Christophe, this you are telling is pure bullshit. I have been asking > > for help on the powerpc kernel packages for month, go look at the > > debian-powerpc mailing list if you are doubtfull, and upto now only Jens > > responded. I find it highly strange that a bunch of other people appear > > now that wants to take over the powerpc kernel stuff, while not even > > bothering to contact the actual powerpc kernel maintainers. > > Huh? As William mentioned no one wants to take over any packages. What
Well, but you were anything but tactfull about this, and you should comprehend our reaction (well, mine, i don't know how Jens learned about this). I am the maintainer of the powerpc kernel, and out of nothing, it is announced on debian-devel that a new kernel team is formed, and that there is someone which will be responsible for powerpc kernels, without us even being informed of it, or even cited or whatever. > I mentioned is that the separate packages must die, and with that I mean > the existing maintainers should cooperate, not new maintainers should > take over. Well, my experience in packaging powerpc kernels for debian tells me that a single kernel source for all architectures may not always be in the best interest, it depends on how it is handled and everything, but i would be interested on how you plan to handle the powerpc/apus case, whose patches are possibly not easily integrable with the remaining of the powerpc patches, let alone the non-powerpc ones. Have you thought about such things, before taking such an agressive stance on this issue ? Friendly, Sven Luther
