On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:17:01AM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 à 22:55 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > > Sorry, but that's not the way Free Software works. Don't wait for > > others to tell you what to do, show us the code! > > I'm not exactly "waiting" for anyone: I already integrated the latest > yaboot version into the Debian package with some other patches, which > took quite some time. I coded just a bit, though, but I was hoping that > some people would follow. I'm no specialist at all about PPC and stuff, > I did all by myself seeing that almost nobody did anything for some > time. It's just that after some time, seeing you're alone integrating, > coding, patching, fixing bugs in that package, you're a bit discouraged. > There was a lot of people willing to test, but that's only part of the > equation. And I'm not blaming anyone.
Benjamin, rest assured your work has been very much appreciated, at least by me. :] > > And what you say is even not true. I already said that I will happily > > sponsor a yaboot upload if it fixes reported RC bugs. This is equally > > valid for all the other relevant packages. Also the release team will > > generally approve uploads that fix RC bugs. They want to release > > Debian after all. > > I don't see what I said that implied that. I know that you offered > sponsoring, thanks, but the thing is, as of today, this "new" yaboot > fixes no RC bug… So I was trying to do one last thing, which is > integrating Joseph's code, before asking for you to sponsor me. This > way, it would at least fix an RC bug and be accepted by the release > team, I hope. My criticism was about not having answers to my questions > about accepting such a package update (minor version change on a package > not updated in years while debian is frozen). It is a very special case and I am pretty much sure that changes to yaboot & yaboot-installer would be accepted to make installation on PowerMacs works. > To fix this problem, other options are replacing ofpath altogether with > Joseph's code, which is too much risky regarding backward compatibility, > I think. Or use ofpathname, which will need some integration work, and > even if it's been more trained than Joseph's code (it's used in GRUB 2), > it could cause some quirks too. But if someone feels like it, let him > code it! When you talk about Joseph's code, do you talk about the changes in the Gentoo package or something elsewhere (which I have obviously missed)? > > Milan Kupcevic sent me a yaboot package for review today. I'll look > > into it tomorrow. So your assumption that there is nothing going on is > > simply wrong. > > Well, I didn't see any message from him here regarding this issue. I > can't guess what people are doing. Seeing this ML's activity recently, I > was under the impression that everyone had let yaboot down. Nice to here > someone is trying to improve it, but I wonder what solution he found. Same thoughts here. Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Debian Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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