Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:58:25PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-10-14 10:06, Sven Luther wrote: > > [...] > >>> I don't know upto what point you are familiar with my history and its > >>> link to the powerpc > >>> port, but it pains m

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:11:56PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-10-06 16:25, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hi Niels, > > > > Hey, > > (Dropping -devel and -ports in exchange for -powerpc; sounded like you > weren't subscribed to -powerpc, so direct CC for yo

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
Friendly, Sven Luther On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:45:35AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > The final results are in: > > Summary table: > Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total > ---++-++-++---++-- > armel || 3 |

Re: [binNMU] facile

2007-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:11:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:47:19PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:42:55AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:35:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >

Re: [binNMU] facile

2007-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
ed way, or maybe an abi-field or something should be added. Ralf, you are involved with the EDOS folk, which if i remember well, this kind of stuff has been one of the topics they where involved with. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to GRUB2

2007-04-25 Thread Sven Luther
yet. Just an entry point, which may or may not be important here. Sun has decided to make grub2 the default for opensolaris, including their powerpc opensolaris port. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to GRUB2

2007-04-25 Thread Sven Luther
, we intend to drop grub from archive since it's a bunch > of patches difficult to maintain and hard to follow. > > Thoughts? I wonder if we will also move from yaboot-installer to grub2-installer on powerpc, and if you have given any thought to that migration path ? Friendly, Sven Lut

Re: Linux plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Luther
el > in etch for r1 or r2 release. Also, it would be good if for lenny we made fuller uses of the possibilities offered by initramfs, especially the way you can concatenate various cpio archives together to obtain a single ramdisk. This would be inmensely helpful both for d-i and the non-free firmware issues. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-9

2006-12-17 Thread Sven Luther
r source packages. > I'm not sure if it would be possible to binNMU / force rebuild of > those, but since linux-modules-* are maintained by the kernel team > and loop-aes by myself, I think we could react quickly and rebuild > them via normal sourceful uploads as well. Why is loo

Please allow mkvmlinuz 29 into testing.

2006-12-17 Thread Sven Luther
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Re: 2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:41:08AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:51:57AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > The -k7 issue, i don't know, can it be a flavour that was dropped or > > something ? > > linux-latest-2.6 is not a candidate because

Re: 2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:36:30AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:26:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > - What is stopping 2.6.18 to enter testing ? The PTS says "Should ignore, > > but forced by vorlon", so does this mean it will enter tes

Re: 2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061201 20:30]: > > - What is stopping 2.6.18 to enter testing ? The PTS says "Should ignore, > > but forced by vorlon", so does this mean it will enter testing today

2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
ay give a light to the problem ? Manoj, can you have a look at this, and maybe help us fix the issue ? I guess those are the most important question, but anyone should feel free to comment if they know something, or have a comment. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Please consider migrating kernel-package to testing ...

2006-11-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:28:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Please consider hinting kernel-package to move into testing. The current > > version in testing is still victim of 391643, which made the built k

Please consider migrating kernel-package to testing ...

2006-11-23 Thread Sven Luther
andle such things, add a "found in 10.062" in the bug report and re-open it ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Asking for the position of the RMs about the powerpc d-i situation.

2006-11-22 Thread Sven Luther
o be fair and just, and keep our users in mind over this issue. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

please let parted 1.7.1-3 move to testing.

2006-11-19 Thread Sven Luther
1.7.1-3 parted makes it to testing ASAP. The 10 day testing period is over today, and only a hint of the RMs with regard the freeze is needed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: preparation for 2.6.18-6 kernel upload on monday 20th of november 2006.

2006-11-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:52:45PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:36:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > As you may know, or not, we are waiting for the abi-breaking 2.6.18-6 to be > > uploaded for pushing the 2.6.18 kernel into etch. > > The ABI b

Re: preparation for 2.6.18-6 kernel upload on monday 20th of november 2006.

2006-11-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:23:34AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Moin, > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:36:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hi, ... > > > > As you may know, or not, we are waiting for the abi-breaking 2.6.18-6 to be > > uploaded for pushi

preparation for 2.6.18-6 kernel upload on monday 20th of november 2006.

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Luther
. Is there any comment on this ? Anyone has any particular stuff they would like included before -6 is released ? Or otherwise comments on this tentative deadline ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#392767: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

2006-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:14:27AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:14:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > I'm sorry. Please feel free to disable the patch; I'm thinking it was

Re: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

2006-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:01:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 18:07, Sven Luther wrote: > > I remember (but am not anymore 100% sure, so a reply from frans/joeyh > > would be nice), that frans told me last week or so, that an upload of > > parted wa

Re: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

2006-11-07 Thread Sven Luther
t; Apologises for the hassle. No problem, i am happy we found it before the release though. Will you be able to work out a better/cleaner patch ? And work with us to merge it upstream ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

2006-11-07 Thread Sven Luther
on parted -s print to find information about the partition table to break, like the one checking for RAID partitions in d-i. (Closes: #392767) -- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:45:28 +0100 #392767 being one of the two parted related RC bugs still open, but

Re: Release team position on the state of kernel firmware, post GR2006-007

2006-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
tion which contradicted directly in at least two places what is essentially the position of the release team and the kernel team, while a better and cleaner resolution was being prepared. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release team position on the state of kernel firmware, post GR2006-007

2006-10-20 Thread Sven Luther
n't meet our standard of freeness. It clearly states that firmwares without DFSG-free licenses have to go (the interpretation here is that the text says that sourceless versions of DFSG-free firmwares have to go). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release team position on the state of kernel firmware, post GR2006-007

2006-10-20 Thread Sven Luther
lieve that the developers would > have voted to allow this in main for etch if we had known soon enough that Yeah, right, another case of interpreting the voter's intent in direct opposition of what the resolution actually said. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PROPOSAL] Final consensual proposal for the problematic firmware issue in the linux kernel sources.

2006-10-20 Thread Sven Luther
rmware matters much to end users, I couldn't > say. tg3, e100 maybe too, those are some very widely widespread ethernet drivers, used among others in servers, where netbooting is a must. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-20 Thread Sven Luther
firmware is contained in a flash on the card, it does not constitute a derivative work of the kernel, and in the same way a free compressor which can generate compressed archive with builtin uncompressor binaries, is not a derivative work of the compressed files it contains. More arguments on

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
regretable that Manoj losed patience suddenly after more than a month an a half of discussing the issues. But we will see. I think we all now await impatiently the statement of the RMs on what will happend with the tg3 and acenic firmwares, and if we need a new vote or not. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PROPOSAL] Final consensual proposal for the problematic firmware issue in the linux kernel sources.

2006-10-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:21:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:03:59 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:05:57PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Can you spell out for us which kernel modules,

[PROPOSAL] Final consensual proposal for the problematic firmware issue in the linux kernel sources.

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
ad all those numerous posts on -vote, even though they didn't actively participate in the discussion. Friendly, Sven Luther -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFJzFH2WTeT3CRQaQRAu8mAKCZl6c+OL3QxHnPCf5xccrUBUjInwCePuct srZa72HVJrcuaVlyEPB3c0E= =i8Tx -

Re: RFC: Final version of kernel team's firmware GR proposal, coined to be consensual to all those of good faith involved in the current discussion.

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:21:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 14:42, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061006 10:00]: > > > I paste here the last instance of the draft proposal by the debian > > > kernel team [1]. W

RFC: Final version of kernel team's firmware GR proposal, coined to be consensual to all those of good faith involved in the current discussion.

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
installer components (.udebs) used by the debian-installer. == END OF PROPOSAL == On behalf of the other proposal crafters, Friendly, Sven Luther [1] - http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing#head-bf5edfa54af87d70d2f39f434703848b5

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
ile 2/3 are most probably code. That makes a bit less than 30 problematic ones. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:31:27PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, the RMs are making claims that those sourceless GPLed drivers > >> don't cause any

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Mass kernel udeb building solution]

2006-08-23 Thread Sven Luther
ed to post this to debian-release. This is kinf of a bit of public finger-pointing, without offering me any chance to reply, that was not really needed. I hope that you will in future consider not doing this kind of stuff, and rather just privately inform the guy you are blocking, because like th

Re: )Request should be ignored, linux-2.6 update responsibility and new 2.6.17 plans

2006-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
een lecturing the kernel team on what we should do or not, dismissing the competence of the kernel team in a patronizing ways. He also is, as usual, very willing to get other people to do work he could as well do himself, but then, he would have nobody to bash on ... Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-2.6: includes nondistributable and non-free binary firmware

2006-08-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:46:56PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:07:42AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Maks - > >> > >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:05:30PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: >

Re: linux-2.6: includes nondistributable and non-free binary firmware

2006-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
uch time before the actual etch release is at hand, which is why 6. is probably a better solution right now, especially if you consider that while we delay etch, debian/sarge will still carry those non-free bits, and so even if we delay etch until around the same time we would have had etch+1 out t

Re: Kernel schedule proposal for Etch

2006-08-17 Thread Sven Luther
ad solution from the installer point of > view. Ah, i thought you proposed to help out with this, and not just complain about it ? But then, maybe i am wrong about this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass kernel udeb building solution

2006-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:51:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:12:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:42:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > This thread has also again shown that Sven is not really interested in > >

Re: Mass kernel udeb building solution

2006-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
an is not the same anymore as when i joined so many years before". So, until you learn some decency, and learn the meaning of the word 'discussion', please go away and don't address me anymore, ever. Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 04:01:12AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Compare it to including a hexdump of an image or sound in a header > >

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
ready when the free driver comes into play. Or you could use the new initramfs/firmware loading kernel infrastructure to separate the firmware from the kernel. Err, is not this latest one what you are suggesting we do ? So, if i understood you well, your own argumentation is hitting you back there, and this is usually proof that there is something terribly wrong in your argumentation to start with. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:46:18AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> W

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has > >> little to do with Debian main. It is a problem for the linux upostream > >

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> And even for an a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
t. Notice that the situation has clearly improved upstream with relation to the patches you sent a couple of year back, and which apparently somehow broke the drivers, so now would be a good time to restart that effort. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:01:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nope, the issue only surfaced early after the sarge release, a bit > > less than a year ago, when the new kernel team formed. > > It was discussed *b

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:02:42AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >&g

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our > > incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. > > We do not

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:57:36AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2) either move the individual affected drivers or just their firmware if > > possible to non-free, and keep the cripled kernel in main. > > Thi

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:49:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second > > thought like some here are proposing. > > In my opinion, we have been sc

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:49:32AM +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri)

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
ut any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, we will provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with no legal restrictions that would prevent such uses of the system. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:26:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > untruth in what i said above, or in the other mail ? > > Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the > devices in question.

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:24:12PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > No, because t

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
have a very different definition of code than me, or maybe you have absolutely no clue about how hardware works, which is sincerely doubt. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:21:32PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >> > >> &

Re: Sven is flaming - please don't!

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:58:11AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:42:42 +0200 Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Sven, can you please finally STOP flaming against the > > > debian-installer team, thank you. > > > > Well, its a simple stateme

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:23:31AM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > These are fine words, but how do you think they can translate into reality ? > > We don't currently have the ressources to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:50:54PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, i don't believe there is much choice left to the kernel team in > > this issue but to ask for a waiver of the DFSG compliance for the > > ker

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Sven Luther
he kernel team in this issue but to ask for a waiver of the DFSG compliance for the kernel for etch, and hope the d-i folk take their responsabilities a bit more seriously for the etch+1 release. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Sven Luther
y, it is moot, since those firmware don't need to be GPL compatibly, since they are just non-free stuff shipped inside the kernel media. But then there may be another license violation mentioned here. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Decision about oot-modules for etch

2006-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
o solve the NEW spamming issue, and let the ftp-master feel their pain, until they see the light and follow up with us about a better solution to this mess :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-06-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:41:30PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:50:57AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:14:33PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: >

Re: Solution for module problem

2006-06-24 Thread Sven Luther
lly needed. It is better to go forward, than to discuss the best solution and not do anything in the end. For your information, i also favour the generation of one binary module .deb (and .udeb if needed) per module. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solution for module problem

2006-06-24 Thread Sven Luther
for each source which builds binary modules. > As the maintainer is not the kernel team, this may need some time. > - Clutters the archive with many packages. > > Sven Luther proposed to integrate this packages into the kernel team but > don't propose a fix for the other pr

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:33:51PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 08 June 2006 20:08, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:16:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > Only if we _would_ include some backports repository that is known to > > > have a curren

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:33:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That said, currently, backports are not an easy solution because of udev, > > which cannot be taken as is without pulling in the whole gnome, so a b

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-08 Thread Sven Luther
ago (last year ever) and the result was to use kernel.debian.org as a repository for those. Check the debian-kernel archive for details. That said, currently, backports are not an easy solution because of udev, which cannot be taken as is without pulling in the whole gnome, so a bit of work is needed. Fri

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-07 Thread Sven Luther
ily built images). > > > > Cheers, > > FJP > > I ment that when you select sarge in choose-mirror in expert mode you > get the inofficial list and if you choose etch/etch+1/sid you get the > official one. > > Might be too much work for a transient problem tho

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-07 Thread Sven Luther
operation that has mostly been rejected violently in the past though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need help

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
t yourself, and described what parts of debian you work on aor plan to work on. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-2.6 testing migration

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
ing to add new packages? Steve, if you have a problem with NEW, you should speak with the ftp-masters, and get the NEW problem solved. At least this is what our DPL did say in the below thread, where he said clearly that the Release Managers had the power to accelerate NEW or something such, if i und

Re: binNMU requests for the ocaml transition

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:38:49AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:31:14AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:13:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:01:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > &

Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ... (Was: bits from the release team: release goals, python, X.org, amd64, timeline)

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > Maybe, but biarch are what we have now, and what can be made to work. I > > asked > > this same question 6+ month ago, and you gave me the same reply, and &

Re: binNMU requests for the ocaml transition

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:13:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:01:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:16:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Anyway, the script I'm using for this is smart enough that it won

Re: binNMU requests for the ocaml transition

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
of the rebuild tree, without waiting for a list of any kind ? Or was it in the kernel discussion that i proposed such an idea ? Steve, do you think that this would be a good idea ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ... (Was: bits from the release team: release goals, python, X.org, amd64, timeline)

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:48:43PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > another month has passed and DebConf happened, so we have a few more >

powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ... (Was: bits from the release team: release goals, python, X.org, amd64, timeline)

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
me questions 6+ month ago, and multiarch was all the rage back then, and even in january the RMs seemed to be interested by multiarch, but this is absent from the release goals, and is not even mentioned. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: linux-2.6 testing migration

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:18:07AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:49:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I marked #369017 as important, should it be RCed ? > > Ask him to upload this today and than NMU it if needed. Well, i filled the patch, with a name

Re: linux-2.6 testing migration

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
ude new packages, only the > > possibility is rather small. But we refuse to drop work just to > > workaround somebody else problem (NEW handling). > > So if -15 is still broken I should plan to NMU rather than count on -16 > doing anything to address the needs of testing u

Re: binNMU requests for the ocaml transition

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:12:48AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 04:43:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:05:48AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > &g

Re: linux-2.6 testing migration

2006-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
patch found in : #369017: kernel-package: [powerpc, prep] Please apply patch to allow to build 2.6.16 -prep kernels. Which is needed in order for the -prep mkvmlinuz support to do the right thing. I filled this bug on friday, so obviously Manoj hadn't had time to fix it or something, or m

Re: linux-2.6 testing migration

2006-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
ink the kernel team is responsible enough to do the right thing there, and probably is the one holding the responsability for deciding that, so any NEW handling done for this purpose is only time-wasting for whatever ftp-master has (or has not) time to process the NEW queue. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: binNMU requests for the ocaml transition

2006-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
and manually excluding any > non-binNMUable ones. So if you could answer the above questions, I should > be able to get these binNMUs going pretty quickly. Cool, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-2.6 testing migration

2006-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
into testing just fine. The -prep image will need NEW handling, and work on the d-i .udeb front, since it is a new flavour. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:39:30AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060526 10:20]: > > Well, it was my understanding that both those packages where living in a > > differnt section, namely etch and etch-, which would take care of > > the problem

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:10:57PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:08:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:47:08AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:38:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > &

Re: SMP PReP (was Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...)

2006-05-25 Thread Sven Luther
pecial kernel for those, until > > more > > information is found about the above. > > I have a Motorola MTX PreP system with dual 604e's that I can test this > on. But you never managed to get SMP working on it, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060524 11:23]: > > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > You are ignoring that we have scheduled a time to update the kernel > > > a

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060524 06:33]: > > Well, as a proof of my claims, the sarge d-i released with a known remote > > security hole, and there has been no (or maybe 1 by now ?) d-i update since > >

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:04:59PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060524 11:52]: > > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060524 11:23]: > > > > On Wed, May 24, 200

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:27:14AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * dann frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060524 05:33]: > > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:46:44PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 01:09:45PM -0500, dann frazier wrote: > > > > Kernel u

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:16:37PM -0500, dann frazier wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:46:44PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 01:09:45PM -0500, dann frazier wrote: > > > Kernel udeb creation process (

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:47:08AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:38:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:52:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Perhaps we disable new kernel features for etch 1/2? e.g., limit new &

Re: kernel/d-i/security/release meeting at DebConf6

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
ise the user awareness of the issue, and we should even document it during the install (a dialog saying this driver is non-free because of blah-blah-blah maybe), and this should in the mid-to-long term help out convince the manufacturers to go the free route. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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