I wish I had more to contribute with, I've used d.i. like 3 times a year(s) ago. Never cared much 'bout the installers nor do I know what the developers stands for or do. But this seems to get a bit out hand...
* grow up will ya'll * On Wednesday 22 November 2006 18:00, Sven Luther wrote: > Hi, ... > > As some of you may have noticed, there is an ugly dispute going on between > some few d-i team members (Frans Pop and Joey Hess mostly, but Geert and > Holger also seem to support them), and which result in a over 6 month old > dispute who is not even near to being resolved, despite numerous and > various attempts to do so on my part. I have documented this issue somewhat > on : > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FransPopAndOthersVs%2eSvenLutherIssu >e > > But despite these numerous attempts on my part to resolve this issue, and > the numerous patches and fixes i have provided to not let the powerpc d-i > rot and become more broken, there seem to be a clear will on the part of > Frans Pop to take the powerpc users hostage in his warfar against me, and > there are a number of patches which are now submitted since a few weeks, > and which where not applied. As an example let's take the following bug : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394971 > #394971: rootskel: [powerpc64] load the fan control modules. > > Which was submited 29 days ago, with a patch and not commited. > > Furthemore, when i did myself an upload on sunday, which included the patch > and fixed the bug report, Frans didn't incorporate the change, but reverted > it today. > > As thus, in the current conditions, i fear for the support of d-i on > powerpc for the etch release, and thus the quality of the release. I > strongly urge you all to sign the petition to get this issue solved on : > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FransPopvsSvenLutherIssue/SvenLuther >Support > > Since you are all kind of held hostage over this petty dispute, by them > stopping me to do work on d-i for powerpc, and in general wasting too much > time on this matter, time i could spend working generally on the powerpc > port. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net ---