On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:49:10PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I was recently told by the upstream author of dmidecode that an old > bug with dmidecode on x86-based Mac-machines has been solved in > upstream CVS. This evening I had a look, and discovered that the > alignment problem on ia64 is also solved there. These two issues are > the only bugs reported against the debian package, and having these > fixed should improve the debian-installer behaviour on both > architectures.
> Please consider upgrading dmidecode in etch with version 2.8-3. I've > read through the patch and did not saw any risky changes. I believe > it should be safe to include. It include an udeb as it is used by > d-i, so the d-i team should comment on this before it is done. Cc > there. > It was uploaded a few minutes ago with low urgency, so it will take > ~10 days before it is ready to enter etch on its own. Well, as dmidecode 2.8-3 was just reported to FTBFS on ia64, this one doesn't seem to be a candidate. Please let us know when you have another upload that works on ia64 if you want it to be considered. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
