reassign 345067 tech-ctte thanks Hello,
It has been over 2 month now since this bug was first created because of some hacky patch which was added to yaird to work around some ugly ide-generic related bugginess. This caused yaird to always load ide-generic when using some subset of ide controllers (piix, via and another one), and fail if ide-generic was not present. This patch was applied without really understanding the situation, with to this day has not been really clarified, as testified by recent discussion on the debian-kernel irc channel a few hours ago. The problem here is that the patch was applied without caring that one some arches (at least powerpc, maybe others), didn't even build ide-generic. This resulted in the kernel (which back then defaulted on using yaird) no longer being installable on those powerpc machines who had the above ide controllers, which in particular concerns the pegasos machine which has a via controller. I filled a bug, noticed an earlier bug was filled and merged them, then i got together with someone who spoke perl, and proposed a patch which disabled the hack on powerpc. Not really the best solution, but it was the less intrusive patch i could propose in hope of fast inclusion, but never got any kind of reply from the yaird maintainer. I meet Jonas at the Erkelenz skolelinux.de meeting in late january, and agreed to downgrade the severity because k-p now reverted to calling initramfs-tools if yaird failed and defaulted to initramfs-tools for powerpc for 2.6.15. I proposed to Jonas to fix this issue, but he refused, and prefered to argue that he didn't understand the issue enough, that it 'may' break in some obscure cases, without being able to specify such cases or even wanting to think about what those cases where, that he was anyway unable to understand yaird enough to do any kind of fixes without first hearing from his upstream. We hadn't heard about Erik since late december, and i immediately wrote him a post, but never got any kind of reply since then, and we are now in early march, and there is no reply from Erik since then. In Erkelenz, jonas clearly told me that he would not consieder my patch until i refered to the technical comitee, and altough i have waited until now for him to take his job of yaird maintainer seriously, this clearly appears not to be the case, and i am thus escalating the issue to you. This whole issue still shows a worse problem though, it is clear that the yaird package is not correctly maintained, and that jonas is unable to do any kind of work on yaird without his upstream, and that his upstream has gone MIA. I doubt it is sane to ship yaird as part of etch in these conditions until something changes in its maintainership. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
