On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 15:19:59 +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:05:07 +0200 > Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.ru> (18/04/2011): > > > So... with a patch available for 1 month+, why is this still not > > > applied and uploaded? The driver is currently useless on MIPS > > > without this patch. Why do you make people jump through hoops just > > > to use Debian on the Yeeloong (manually recompiling Xorg)? > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install > > > > you know about volunteer-based distributions? Debian is one of > > them. Meaning nobody (generally) gets paid to work on it, and meaning > > stuff gets done when people have time to. > > If a person stepped up to be a maintainer of a package, a certain amount of > responsibility is expected. If they can not do something as simple as > applying an already prepared patch in a 1.5 month timeframe, maybe it's > time for them to just stop holding things up and put the package up as > orphaned. If you have people waiting and relying on you, and simply can't > deliver, then just stop wasting everyone's time. > > Actually I reviewed the patch and notice it actually touches not the > -siliconmotion driver, but xserver-xorg-core. Maybe the bug should be > reassigned as well? > I don't think this patch has ever been submitted upstream to Xorg. Whoever wants it integrated needs to do that.
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