Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 22:14:00 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > My intent in _this_ thread was to get a discussion among > debian-ports.org users started for best practices of how > to communicate with package maintainers in Debian. Sorry > for being unclear there. I had hoped for hints ☺ since I

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e you referring to? > > The subject of this thread (before you shortened it) was "maintainer > communication (was Re: Debian kernel regression, was Re: Modernizing a > Macintosh LC III)". > > That discussion covered both the usefulness of the serial console (i.e.

Re: Linux/m68k config again (was Re: maintainer communication)

2013-12-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Finn Thain dixit: > > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > > > Finn Thain dixit: > > > > > > > Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? > > > > > > See the discussion in the thread before this message. > > > > I've seen no di

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Banck dixit: >I am not sure which thread you are meaning, and in general, I think >discussing random Linux kernel config options on -ports is off-topic. Indeed, that wasn’t the intent of this thread. I’ve continued that particular discussion on debian-68k. My intent in _this_ thread was

Linux/m68k config again (was Re: maintainer communication)

2013-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Finn Thain dixit: >I've seen no discussion of this on debian-68k or linux-m68k. What >discussion are you referring to? Oh right, that was a Cc-list conversation including Geert. Sorry. Anyway, the intent of the thread on d-ports@l.d.o was something else. Let’s continue this on d-68k instead. >T

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Finn Thain
you referring to? The subject of this thread (before you shortened it) was "maintainer communication (was Re: Debian kernel regression, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III)". That discussion covered both the usefulness of the serial console (i.e. CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG) and

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 04:47:30PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Finn Thain dixit: > > >Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was > > See the discussion in the thread before this message. I am not sure which thread you are meaning, and in general, I think discussing rand

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Finn Thain dixit: >Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was See the discussion in the thread before this message. >CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK disabled? It was never enabled. And that’s what you get when you let a BSD guy whose Linux experience dates back to 2.0.3[3-6] (and some 2.4.

Re: maintainer communication (was Re: Debian kernel regression, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III)

2013-12-23 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y and CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG=n Why is CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG to be disabled? And why was CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK disabled? > I think we need to file bugs in the BTS for each of these instances in > the future, instead of trying

maintainer communication (was Re: Debian kernel regression, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III)

2013-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixi quod… >Hi $maintainer, > >can we still get CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y and >CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG=n into 3.12 before it hits unstable? This was, of course, not integrated into src:linux before the 3.12.6-1 upload. (Which by the way autobuilt, meaning we have build logs ☻ instead of me building i