Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question is : Did frans have a ethic reason to remove my commit > access, or did he do it only out of spit to get ride of me ? I have > seen many argue that since i resigned from being 'the d-i powerpc > porter' it was ok for him to remove those commit

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But nobody cared to inform the powerpc users, who where trying to use the > broken images on machines the april 1 build could not work. I'm a powerpc user, and I wasn't trying to use the broken images. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have seen Frans claim various times about patches and changes i > was proposing that it will never be applied anyway because i > proposed it, and he didn't thrust me. Do you really thing that in > the light of this me sending in patches just to have them

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not willing to send in patches now. I was kicked out of d-i a month ago. Gotcha. I don't understand why, however. I lack write access to all kinds of things, but I still send in patches. It sounds like you care about powerpc support, so I find it

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, i was kicked out of the d-i project. That is sad. Even so, i was > willing to help, and discovered this not because they told it to me, > but because i was blocked from helping. They had to do it meakly in > my back. What I heard you say was that you

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should be removed from the actual etch release candidate until the > situation improves. The etch release candidate guidelines include a working > and well supported d-i port, and this criteria is not fullfilled, so powerpc > should be dropped from pote

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, i am raising an alarm earlier, so people who care about powerpc will have > time to act, and will not stay believing all is fine, and end with a mess 8 > month from now or such. Hrm, perhaps I misunderstood your subject line. I understood it not to b

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, who is working on the powerpc d-i port ? Only Colin Watson, > but his duties in ubuntu don't leave him enough time to do the work > properly, and it was always me in the past who ended up doing the > work nobody else cared about. I don't understand

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, i will not go this way. If the social problem doesn't solve itself in the > near future, i am much more proposing to host a forked version of the d-i and > some key packages, and fix stuff there. So you are now declaring that you will not submit the p

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken > since almost a month, and since the d-i team kicked me out as > powerpc maintainer, and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no > way for me to help fix this, and this clearly demostra

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was easily reproduced - there's no libmwdrivers.a for powerpc and the > microwindows build tries to use that before it's built. No, no, a thousand times no. microwindows does try to build libmwdrivers.before it's used, and without someone giving m

Re: ATTENTION MICHAEL SCHMITZ

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Worse - he wasn't using the UCI mail server as mailhub. And some bloke on > the residential network caught my attention by means of spam. Next time > I'll flame the hell out of the UCI network staff before blacklisting them > again. 1) blacklist the

Re: ATTENTION MICHAEL SCHMITZ

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Your mailer is rejecting valid email messages from me with no > > explanation. FIX IT. > > 550 We don't accept mail from spammers isn't enough of an > explanation? Nope. > Your ISP somehow landed itself on our blacklist. My ISP is the University

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that's a drastically unfair judgement. I would rather ask > every maintainer to do a few extra steps for the quality of their > packages (or better yet, to improve automated systems to notify > (opt-in) maintainers about such problems). R

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why (only the last of four identical errors). According to the > package listing page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages there's no > libmwdrivers.a in any of the PowerPC packages, any distribution. On ix86 > the file is in libmicrowindow

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why (only the last of four identical errors). According to the > package listing page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages there's no > libmwdrivers.a in any of the PowerPC packages, any distribution. On ix86 > the file is in libmicrowindow

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Please don't. I just tried to build it and got exactly the same error > > > > as in the build report. > > > > > What version of apt do you have installed? > > > > 0.5.4. Why? > > Because I suspected a problem with apt at the bottom of thes

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:10:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > I would like to close bug 121459, and rely on powerpc to attempt a > > build by the normal process and report a new bug against the current > >

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've rescheduled the 0.88pre11-4 build hoping the build dependencies > install now. But that doesn't relate to #121459 at all. Oh yes, and Michael: direct mail to you still bounces with your mail server saying "We don't accept mail from spammers".

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've rescheduled the 0.88pre11-4 build hoping the build dependencies > install now. But that doesn't relate to #121459 at all. As far as I can tell, it doesn't work: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=microwindows&ver=0.88pre11-4&arch=powerpc&st

ATTENTION MICHAEL SCHMITZ

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
chicken wire," Tom said defensively From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 04 Jan 2002 15:47:30 -0800 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; cha

Re: microwindows build status

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I rarely do these > days, rather rely on the maintainer to check build status and > logs). This is not such a good idea. Maintainers are generally not responsible for checking build status and logs; the port maintainer (whoever is responsible for m

microwindows build status

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
microwindows is not building on powerpc, but I don't know why. The bug report filed seems wrong to me, and the buildd report at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/?arch=powerpc&state=Dep-Wait reports: libs/microwindows_0.88pre11-4: Dep-Wait by schmitz-pb [optional:uncompiled] Dependencies: freet

Bug 121459

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
See the referenced bug. I would be happy to try and fix this myself, but I don't have access to a powerpc running sid. If someone could either work on fixing this and submit a patch, or alternatively, point me at a powerpc sid box, then I'd work on it myself. Please CC me and debian-qa directly