[gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Christian Faulhammer 
Tach Daniel,  0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID)

Daniel Drake schrieb:
 This is becoming a real problem for me as I'm having to waste excessive
 amounts of time on every kernel release fixing bugs in packages which
 are nothing to do with me. I'm considering dropping stable keywords from
 repeat offenders, but really there aren't any of those: external kernel
 packages are almost guaranteed to break every once in a while, and we
 simply have a large number of these packages which aren't given much
 attention by their maintainers. Any suggestions here are appreciated.

 Announce it here (or -core) which needs a fix and then just commit the  
fix if it is trivial and there has been no reaction.

V-Li

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Drake 

Christian Faulhammer wrote:
 Announce it here (or -core) which needs a fix and then just commit the  
fix if it is trivial and there has been no reaction.


I think you didn't grasp the problem exactly.

There are a large number of packages which build against the kernel and 
do not get much attention from their maintainers. To avoid too many 
sharp objects coming in my direction when a new kernel goes stable, I 
spend a lot of time providing fixes for these packages.


The problem is that this (i.e. producing the fixes) is a big waste of 
time on my part, I'd rather work on real kernel stuff which is lagging 
behind.


Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Mike Pagano 

On 10/20/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Christian Faulhammer wrote:
  Announce it here (or -core) which needs a fix and then just commit the
 fix if it is trivial and there has been no reaction.

I think you didn't grasp the problem exactly.

There are a large number of packages which build against the kernel and
do not get much attention from their maintainers. To avoid too many
sharp objects coming in my direction when a new kernel goes stable, I
spend a lot of time providing fixes for these packages.

The problem is that this (i.e. producing the fixes) is a big waste of
time on my part, I'd rather work on real kernel stuff which is lagging
behind.

Daniel
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This seems to me like a good opportunity to engage the arch teams for
some assistance.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2.6.18 going stable in 1 week

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Drake 

Mike Pagano wrote:

This seems to me like a good opportunity to engage the arch teams for
some assistance.


So the arch teams would be happy to handle package foo doesn't compile 
with 2.6.18 bugs, for example, bug 148381?


Daniel
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