Hi Nicolas!
Debian Bug Tracking System Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #314827: em8300-source: fails to compile against linux kernel 2.6,
> which was filed against the em8300-source package.
>
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
...
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:30:50PM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote:
> > Hello Nicolas!
> >
> > Thank you for your quick reply.
>
> This reply was much slower, since I had nothing to add. But the new
> version-tracking feature of the BTS alows to set prcisely in what
> version this bug is closed. I think that's worth trying.
>
> > Nicolas Boullis:
> > > 2.6 series kernels are unfortunately unsupported by em8300 0.14.0. They
> > > are however supported by upstream's 0.15.0, which was released too late
> > > for inclusion in sarge. But packages are already available for testing
> > > (etch) and unstable (sid). Hence, I'm closing this bug report.
> >
> > I'm sorry, I have to disagree.
>
> Only about me closing the bug, I hope. Or you you disagree with anything
> I wrote before?
>
I still disagree with closing this bug, because it still exists in Sarge and
will ever be, so this bug should keep open for Sarge's livetime.
> > > If you feel this is an important enough issue, feel free to reopen the
> > > bug report and tag it sarge, but there's no chance that this bug gets
> > > fixed for sarge.
> >
> > Because this will be the only notice for sarge users, that em8300 won't
> > compile with kernel-2.6 (which is widely used), I'd like to keep this bug
> > open for reporting.
>
> OK, no problem.
>
Why did you again close it then?
Please consider to reopen this bug. It is tagged Sarge, so every Sarge user
can get notice of this limitation and haven't to grep bug archive.
Kindly regards,
Erik
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