On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 12.10.2016 00:15, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > > Fix it then. This driver is unmaintained for years and does not build > > with kernel 4.8. > that was not the point of the email to tell me "fix it then" > > the point was that you drop some package, don't even inform you are > about to do so, or ask for help updating. with bulld errors, etc details > like normal bugreports are createA
I remove packages after I see breakage sitting around in th-test for a long time and no one interested in fixing it. Any dev breaking stuff should be aware of the consequences and take action to minimize breakage. I'm not a nanny or Mr. Fix-it for everything. > and now you respond: "why don't i update myself?" > > because you've being doing it so well i don't even notice problems that > i should bother myself with and can keep occupied with other projects. Sorry, but I'm sick of kernel modules being randomly dropped on ftp and then forgotten by package authors. I end up maintaining antiquated junk I have no way of testing, and until reently, we did ship not working crap there (chnages to kernel compile flags helped finding those). From now on, if a kernel package does not build for new head kernel and no obvious fix is available, I will drop such package on head. If you want antique module, stick to old kernel. -- Jan Rękorajski | PLD/Linux SysAdm | baggins<at>pld-linux.org | http://www.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
