On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] > >> > > If I'm not mistaken, comments #4 and #5 (the last two comments) pertain > > to you. > > Well, yes, but they don't say anything (to me) as best I read. Or > maybe I don't understand how the folks that work in those areas talk > these days. > I believe what comment #4 is saying is that while, sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.12 fixes the issue that version is not in ppc stable.
I believe what vapier is saying, albeit crudely and tersely, in comment #5 is that he did is job (which was to fix the bug) and if you need the fix in stable then you need to file a ppc stabilization bug. Presumably vapier doesn't handle ppc stabilization bugs so he's passing the buck. > Basically it seems it's broken for ppc, the folks in that thread > understand it's broken, and then what? Those comments were two months > ago. > If the author of comment #4 hasn't already done so, I would recommend that you file a ppc stabilization bug for baselayout-1.12.12. > I'm lost. HTH > I went back to kbd-1.13-r1and the problem is gone but then another > problem appears where it cannot map character code 0 to some other > value. I've lost that message for now as I start MythTV automatically > and cannot get back in the console becuase of X messages but it's in > the bug system somewhere. I found it earlier this morning. > Ok... but that's a separate issue... > Anyway, I think the two sides (x86/amd64 && ppc) aren't consistently > handled and that these folks know it but haven't fixed it for some > reason. I only ran into it because of an update to a machine that's > been gathering dust. Not wanting to go in to a long discussion (too late for that I guess) there is basically the "regular" dev folks, who presumably vapier belongs to, and then there are the arch teams (the above is 3 sides, actually; not two) who handle testing and stabilization on a particular platform. These are not always the same people and, as often the case in the Gentoo development world, one side doesn't necessarily know/care what the other side is doing. Even between the arch teams there is little "consistency" i.e. the x86 arch team doesn't care what's happening in the ppc world. Vapier handles the software, but he doesn't necessarily mess with the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable. That's why he's requesting you open another bug for that. -a
