Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:35:55PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe it would be best for all involved if we maintained a list of such > > cases, and had proper workaround in either udev or a separate package, and > > then, actively sear

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe it would be best for all involved if we maintained a list of such > cases, and had proper workaround in either udev or a separate package, and > then, actively search to get those cases fixed in the kernel, either by doing > the develop

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:39:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, on one hand you say you have no plan to oppose workarounds, but on the > > other hand you clearly oppose such workarounds ? > No, I oppose attempts to require me to maintain the

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, i remember some issues with the firewire module in the sarge timeframe, > and how you actively discouraged a workaround for this. It's hard to be specific since I do not remember the details either, but IIRC I suggested a solution to be im

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:25:01PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > By saying that these obsolete drivers should be supported anyway you are > > > basically requesting other people to spend their time maintaining > > > workarounds in their own

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By saying that these obsolete drivers should be supported anyway you are > > basically requesting other people to spend their time maintaining > > workarounds in their own packages. > Well, we have done this for sarge in a much more extensive w

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I think that this is not a position acceptable in debian right now, who aims > >to support many less-supported-arches/subarches, who still struggle to get > >their main patches into mainline. So i believe