Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:13:47PM +0200, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night

Bug#369448: linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc: package fails to install

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
: On Tue, 30 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:50:41AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc Well, running -reconfigure just complains its not installed... Trying to dpkg-reconfigure

Bug#369479: [BSP] implement debconf for the udev kernel-related upgrade procedure.

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
polished those dialogs to your convenience, or something, or added some toughts to this bug report, or discussed it with the BSPer directly or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369448: linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc: package fails to install

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
maybe some mis-detection of the subarch, which would have the system default to mkvmlinuz instead of yaboot. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369448: linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc: package fails to install

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:50:41AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: reassign 369448 mkvmlinuz thanks Um, methinks you missed a CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nope, i always bcc control, so people don't resend stuff to it when they 'g'-reply. You

Bug#360457: Redo!

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
with the s390 patches in this regard, i don't know how the 1.7 situation is with regard to that though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
? Maybe you got someone else's build, that includes miboot locally (it's not in debian..) Colin also included the miboot stuff in his floppy builds some time ago (a couple of week, shortly before debconf if i remember well). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#365455: pushing 2.6.16 into testing and the powerpc situation ...

2006-05-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:11:00PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: severity 365455 important thanks On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:51:29AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: It seems 2.6.16 is going to be pushed into testing soon, and i have some reservations about this fact. You had one month to fix

Bug#369207: sarge-sid dist-upgrade is impossible, gnome/udev/kernel circular dep

2006-05-28 Thread Sven Luther
, and no easy way to go out of this without removing the whole gnome packages, which is not desired. I beleive i will be able to go out of this by some creative apt/dpkg overriding, and maybe hand intervention, but we can't release etch this way. Friendly, Sven Luther -- Package-specific info: -- /etc

Bug#349354: Bug#369207: sarge-sid dist-upgrade is impossible, gnome/udev/kernel circular dep

2006-05-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:22:35AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 28, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, i tried installing the linux-image package, but apt didn't let me do this, because of the above installability problems, resulting in a broken apt/dpkg database, and no easy

Bug#369017: kernel-package: [powerpc, prep] Please apply patch to allow to build 2.6.16 -prep kernels.

2006-05-26 Thread Sven Luther
for a 'prep' flavour to use ARCH=ppc. I have tested it, and it does indeed do the right thing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages

Bug#368690: Installation fails, when /var/cache/apt/archives is full

2006-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:17:10AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Comments/Problems: What basically happend is the following: I got a new harddisc. I moved my old disc, with my old / and /home to /dev/hdc and to test the new installer and attached my new disc as /dev/hda. The installer

Bug#368363: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#368363: parted - FTBFS: autopoint: *** cvs program not found

2006-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
** Build finished at 20060521-1023 FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died] Strange, since the parted repository is now under svn anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#368363: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#368363: parted - FTBFS: autopoint: *** cvs program not found

2006-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote: Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Package: parted Version: 1.7.0-1 Severity: serious

Bug#364637: I see, change in 8250.c between 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 - WAS: no go for me with serial console, bug 364637

2006-05-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:37:24AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Brad Boyer wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: What is supposed to happen after 'Trying to im_free...' ? Attaching the full log. The isa

Bug#367709: requesting libstdc++ .udeb in order to produce c++ based images based on d-i technology (but not d-i).

2006-05-17 Thread Sven Luther
not be something that will be releasable as part of etch, but would live at the fringes of it, until a better integration may be possible at the etch+1 stage. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366938: gtk 2.0.x or 2.9+ for etch g-i ? (Was: graphics or text as default)

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:48:30AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:09, Sven Luther wrote: It is scheduled for release during may, which may or not be delayed a bit. This is way this is an important point to get feedaback from the release team and from the gtk-gnome team

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:45:32PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Sven Luther writes (Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...): As i startedto reply to Ian yesterday, no, i won't start a GR as is [...] `As is' ? Oh, well, don't remember, some bad cutpaste again :/ I am not sure

Bug#367149: kbd-chooser: [powerpc] does not detect ADB keyboards

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
no expert in this, CCing debian-powerpc). There is maybe still some need for some specialized layout though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366620: initramfs-tools: 2.6.16-1-powerpc fails to mount rootfs, 2.6.15-1-powerpc works

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:33:18PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:42:28AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:48:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:55:39AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: tags 366620 moreinfo stop

Bug#367149: kbd-chooser: [powerpc] does not detect ADB keyboards

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:26:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 15 May 2006 14:36, Sven Luther wrote: I am not 100% sure, bvut i remember that the 2.6 kernels translate all kind of mac keyboards to the same thing. As such, there is no ADB keyboard needed anymore, as the kernel exports

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:45:32PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Sven Luther writes (Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...): As i startedto reply to Ian yesterday, no, i won't start a GR as is [...] Ian, ... For some reason i cannot reply to you privately, your mail setup is probably

Bug#367149: kbd-chooser: [powerpc] does not detect ADB keyboards

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
Apple keyboard has the @ symbol on the G key. AFAIK in some other countries the layout can be completely different. I believe in every country except pure-US, the layout is different, we had loads of problems with this with regard to X keyboard mappings. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#367149: kbd-chooser: [powerpc] does not detect ADB keyboards

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 05:28:08PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 15 May 2006 16:28, Sven Luther wrote: You probably can, adb keyboards are only used on oldworld machines, and those are easily enough to detect from /proc/cpuinfo. We even do so to get the oldworld subarch (pmac_oldworld

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-14 Thread Sven Luther
. This is in reality the question i ask, if this is not going to be what you are judging on, let's better drop the issue, i had no intentions of bringing the social warfar here. Friendly (maybe ?), Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Luther
on it ? And this i believe is an almost unpardonable issue. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-13 Thread Sven Luther
solved. Notice that i asked the DPL to give some guarantee that if i make effort to behave, i will not get this same threatment from you and others next time i dare give a technical opinion which you don't like. Hurt, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Luther
and our users in mind. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Luther
will the social mess help you in determining the technical nature of this request ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366938: svn commit access to the d-i repo ...

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:58:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:38:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, this is an attemtp to statuate on the problematic which has been opposing me and the d-i team on the subject of the commit access to the d-i repository

Bug#365425: starting a debian-flash group WAS: Re: Bug#365425: ITP: haxe -- Web programming languge generating Flash SWF

2006-05-11 Thread Sven Luther
to the project, be sure to include your alioth login. I am luther, please add me there. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366620: initramfs-tools: 2.6.16-1-powerpc fails to mount rootfs, 2.6.15-1-powerpc works

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
by quik or bootx. In both cases, mkvmlinuz is not used, or at least its scripts are silently skipped. Friendly, Sven Luther what ppc box is that? cat /proc/cpuinfo regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#365479: starting a debian-flash group WAS: Re: Bug#365425: ITP: haxe -- Web programming languge generating Flash SWF

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Luther
the situation is severly lacking in this regard. As thus, the creation of a debian-flash mailing list, to help federate the various people interested in that topic is very important, and will hopefully be the key to our futur success. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#365859: found difference between boot logs of the two xserves

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Luther
this now, or to get Colin Watson to fix it. With power comes responsability, so please get this issue handled and fixed as soon as possible. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365978: mkvmlinuz: doesn't clean up temporary directory

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Luther
a fixed mkvmlinuz 21 this WE, with probably a few other fixes in addition. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-05-02 Thread Sven Luther
packages confunded. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-05-02 Thread Sven Luther
clean, and should know how to handle those partition tables. Bastian would have noticed if not. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-05-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:23:10PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:52:58AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: snip/ Please provide the full picture. We may re-evaluate after that. Notice that once we are going

Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-05-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:09:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: Hello, On 06-May-01 19:23, Geert Stappers wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Notice that once we are going multi-arch (probably not for etch though), the 64bit architecture

Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-05-01 Thread Sven Luther
mostly, who rebuilt everything in a pure-64 way, and has been sending out bug reports asking for ppc64 support since a long time now. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365425: starting a debian-flash group WAS: Re: Bug#365425: ITP: haxe -- Web programming languge generating Flash SWF

2006-04-30 Thread Sven Luther
to help on this in around a year or so, nothing is sure yet though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365455: pushing 2.6.16 into testing and the powerpc situation ...

2006-04-30 Thread Sven Luther
be usefull for future cases of subarch breakage, and it will be more convenient if we kept older kernel versions in such an archive over the archive.debian.net case. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
Package: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 Version: 1.14 Severity: important As said, please add an apus flavour also, in order to be able to get ride of the 2.4.27 apus flavour in d-i, which i am not sure is working anymore, given the state of 2.4.27 in etch/sid. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
doesn't seem to be included in the 2.6.15 kernels. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 27 April 2006 12:14, Sven Luther wrote: 1) daily build business card and netinst isos are failing to build since april 1, which means they don't include the broadcom tg3 module at all, and are thus not really usable

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 27 April 2006 12:14, Sven Luther wrote: 1) daily build business card and netinst isos are failing to build since april 1, which means they don't include the broadcom tg3 module at all, and are thus not really usable

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
developpers, if you would ask me, and in any case, they are not true to the social contract. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:59:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060427 13:53]: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060427 13:23]: Dear fellow powerpc folk, this clearly means

Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
fixing. The 2.6.15-2.6.16 migration clearly did bring a lot of trouble and work. That said, only 2.6.15 is in testing for now, so i wonder the wisdom of building d-i images based on 2.6.16. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:27:35PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to fix it, maybe it would have been fixed already, but no, the d-i team decided this otherwise. You can't *commit*, but you still can

Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:07:36PM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:27:35PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Bug#308649: Useless modules loaded: confirmed on iBook G4

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
a sensible way. Well, let's just remove initrd-tools from etch/sid, this will also solve the issue :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:36:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:04:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:58:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:49:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I'd be happy to, but there's no linux

Bug#364046: initramfs-tools: when dropped in root fsck mode, the keyboard modules are not (yet) loaded.

2006-04-21 Thread Sven Luther
the keyboard modules are not (yet) loaded or something. The keyboard works when i later go into the fallback shell, if i remember correctly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

Bug#358625: debian-kernel-devel or debian-devel-kernel?

2006-04-17 Thread Sven Luther
supports more than one kernel, which already lead to changes of package names. Well; the idea was that this list was open to all debian kernels, not just the linux ones. This didn'r really happen though, but i think it is still true. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#358625: debian-kernel-devel or debian-devel-kernel?

2006-04-17 Thread Sven Luther
unused (and redirect it to debian-kernel-bugs or something. On the other hand, maybe we should just promote proper procmail rules to filter out bug reports :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#361024: note on 2.4 is deprecated

2006-04-14 Thread Sven Luther
by the kernel team a few weeks ago is already a good step into this direction. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#362318: FTBFS: build-dependencies cannot be fulfiled

2006-04-13 Thread Sven Luther
to keep it is for the nubus and possibly apus kernels, but none of them are currently built. Maybe we should ask for the removal of linux-kernel-di-powerpc for etch/sid ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#362319: FTBFS: UTS Release version in does not match current version

2006-04-13 Thread Sven Luther
always reintroduce it later for nubus if it is needed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:36:44AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-27 16:43]: I didn't touch the buildd since more than a week, so it is clear that (again) the d-i team broke the daily builds and don't take the responsability to fix them. Did you

Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:27:55PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-28 10:32]: Did you actually take *any look* at the failure at all? If so, you'd know that you're blaming the wrong people... Actually, Frans is blaming me, so ... You mean

Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:36:44AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-27 16:43]: I didn't touch the buildd since more than a week, so it is clear that (again) the d-i team broke the daily builds and don't take the responsability to fix them. Did you

Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-27 Thread Sven Luther
bastard, i personally asked you yesterday to not pick on me like you are doing now, since i was facing another strong crisis with my mother yesterday, and really didn't need such bullshit. It is clear by your action that you have no human decency. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#358997: linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc: Doesn't build vmlinuz image

2006-03-26 Thread Sven Luther
it is not forgotten. Still i believe it is safer to keep using 2.6.15 for prep, and wait for 2.6.17 for the support, or maybe some later backport. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#301215: new upstream version : 0.9.3

2006-03-25 Thread Sven Luther
then. Maybe someone else can upload it in the meantime or we can wait. BTW, big *thank you* to sven who helped us unicorn users ... Thanks, ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#358997: linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc: Doesn't build vmlinuz image

2006-03-25 Thread Sven Luther
it though, as i was asked not to participate in debian kernel development for a couple of weeks though, but we will see. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#359025: linux-2.6: [powerpc] PReP is broken in 2.6.16, needs a ARCH=ppc flavour.

2006-03-25 Thread Sven Luther
is solved for 2.6.17, or we build an ARCH=ppc -ppc flavour for use by the prep users. Alternatively, we can backport the prep fixes once they are implemented for 2.6.17. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale

Bug#358633: ocaml-mode: not installed for emacs-snapshot

2006-03-23 Thread Sven Luther
(or chroot) and see if the problem is a ubuntu specific one or a debian one. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#358538: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#358538: parted-udeb: Stray accented As in display

2006-03-22 Thread Sven Luther
drives displays stray A with ^ characters where spaces should be displayed. In the attached file, they show up as character 0x1842 after Unknown, swap, lvm, etc. This is a unbroken space i believe. Is this possible ? Friendy, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#357634: Please add mips/mipsel (and others) to control (or make it any)

2006-03-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 07:43:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-18 20:25]: There is no native ocaml compiler for mips/mipsel, and as thus, there is no need for mips/mipsel to build the native-code spamoracle package. So why does the package use

Bug#329319: [Yaird-devel] Bug#329319: How about including this patch in the package?

2006-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
with swsusp at all, I have now proposed the patch ingeneer, C. Scott Ananian, to step up and become member of the yaird packaging team. Jonas, have you heard of upstream recently ? If not, it is reasonable to mention this as a strong incentive for going the 2) way. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
remove those hacks, include a mention of the broken kernels in the README file, and maybe propose a fixed yaird to stable-proposed-updates or something. Alternatively, we could propose a fixed kenrel to stable-proposed-update which removes the herbert-xu modular ide patch. Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:12:42AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:00:50AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: When ide-generic is included (it is loaded after all the native ide modules), the kernel boots fine. The reason is that in the Debian 2.6.8 sources the ide-generic

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:40:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:10:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I've done a little poking of my own at sysfs based on the comments in the yaird code. I can confirm that it is possible for a PCI IDE driver to be listed

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:10:27AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Mmm. When this was happening, could you use and mount partition on this device ? And when doing so, do you know which of ide-generic or cmd64x would

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-10 Thread Sven Luther
problems with 2.6.14-5, however, so I suspect either both changelog entries are wrong or there's more to it than the modular-ide patch. If the patch was droped in 2.6.14-6, and you had problems with 2.6.14-5, then this is perfectly normal, no ? Or am i missing something ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Re: Bug#345067: ide-generic on poweprc

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:29:14PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:35:59PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/7/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:20:31PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Please see http://wiki.debian.org

Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Re: Bug#345067: ide-generic on poweprc

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:03:18AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:29:14 +1000 Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:35:59PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On 3/7/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:20

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:35:23AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:35:38PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Sven Luther wrote: As quoted from http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem, it is no clear that ide-generic and via82cxxx to take only one

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
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Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
happens in yaird (or initramfs-tools): ide-generic is always loaded last. We had been trying to load ide-generic always (and it happened to load before the others) at first, which triggered the DMA bug and ide-generic was then moved to be loaded last. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
of the driver working without it. And will you be able to fix it then ? Will you back out the ide-generic patch that was introduced in 0.0.12 ? What are your real intentions about this ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Re: Bug#345067: ide-generic on poweprc

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:31:58PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:55:12 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the design of both yaird and the kernel ide layer make it very hard to believe such a bug existed. It could be, but would be a bug in the kernel

Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Re: Bug#345067: ide-generic on poweprc

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:38:55PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Sven Luther writes (Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Re: Bug#345067: ide-generic on poweprc): [ a mixture of technical comments and egregious ranting ] Sven, I am very disappointed that even after we have repeatedly asked you

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:08:04PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:08:33AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Steve, what is the interest of doing this ? We only have 2.6.15 currently in sid/etch, and sarge uses 2.6.8 together with initrd-tool, so it is a non-issue

Bug#352914: yaboot-installer tries to search for apple partitions on ibm rs6k/pseries hardware

2006-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:31:35PM +0100, Nölle, Christian wrote: Tried it today with the image from last night and the problem still persists. Installer is completly unusable. Maybe I should file a new

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
hope to get a bit more credit when i say things like that in the future. Friendly, Sven Luther On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:31:06PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:53:58 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been over 2 month now since this bug was first

Bug#345067: My understanding of the IDE mess, and why it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch

2006-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Dear technical comittee members, .. First excuses for me going over the border yesterday, but as you will see the problem was as i first voiced it somewhen in november/december, and it is a bit difficult to handle this kind

Bug#355673: Please remove mlglade, lablgtk and mlgtk from etch/sid archives

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
, and as it is probable that gtk1 won't ship as part of etch, now that the last apps where migrated to gtk2, ... Furthermore, those three packages where not rebuilt for ocaml 3.09.1, and are thus uninstallable and unbuildable in etch/sid. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#352780: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp: dependence on udev

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
. Yaird does not depend on udev, so that might be the option you are looking for. For details check out Yaird is mostly unmaintained at this date though, so be warned. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#352780: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp: dependence on udev

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:56:03AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:17:55 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:24:25PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, The linux-image packages do

Bug#345067: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
in these conditions until something changes in its maintainership. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352780: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp: dependence on udev

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:49:34AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:36:37 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:56:03AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Please also note that the above

Bug#345067: jonas, you are being dishonest.

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
insulted me in public, but this is too much. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352780: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp: dependence on udev

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
that may come up, and since we promised in our social contract to not hide problems, i take it upon myself to warn the yaird users. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345067: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
, in response to Sven Luther: The ide-generic module is not built on powerpc, In the _current_ _official_ kernel package in Debian, or in any sysfs-supporting powerpc Linux kernel ever, locally built or not? seems to be the important question; and I gather the answer is that the official

Bug#345067: jonas, you are being dishonest.

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:14:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:15:56PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I am severly disapointed with you, and you are a liar by claiming that i Sven, there is no need to call anyone a liar. Well, he is lying about this, he refused

Bug#345067: Draft of documenting the ide-generic problem

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
than i do, please. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:20:31PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [stripping unneeded/problematic receivers] On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:25:38 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:43:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns

Bug#354991: installation-report: Partman fails to detect windows LDM partitions

2006-03-06 Thread Sven Luther
this, we really need a fallback on the /proc/partitions to provide read-only partitions in case where parted/libparted is not working, instead of just proposing to over-write the partition table like it is done now. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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