Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Colin Tuckley
Nathanael Nerode wrote: drivers/media/video/dabfirmware.h ... drivers/net/tokenring/3c359_microcode.h In other words, *all* of the above drivers. Wrong! Those are not the *drivers* they are the source code header files needed to link to them. Colin -- Colin Tuckley | [EMAIL

Bug#441860: initramfs-tools: Resume from swap partition in LVM doesn't work

2007-09-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, thanks for the quick reply. On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I grepped for RESUME in /etc/initramfs-tools/ and /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ but found no obvious use of that variable (except it's sourced by

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:10:17 +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: drivers/media/video/dabfirmware.h ... drivers/net/tokenring/3c359_microcode.h In other words, *all* of the above drivers. Wrong! Those are not the *drivers* they are the source code header

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Coming back to looking at Debian after being preoccupied by family business, I see that the kernel team is not even seriously trying to separate out any non-free material. There have been severe regressions from sarge and

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Coming back to looking at Debian after being preoccupied by family business, I see that the kernel team is not even seriously trying to separate out any non-free material. There have been severe regressions from sarge and no attempt is being made to fix them. Why don't you start to

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:39:05AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Non-free material is being included in main for the benefit of *precisely zero* users. There's no two ways about this: this is a Social Contract violation. Kernel has 736[1] open bugs, including ones that corrupt data and make

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Sam Morris
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:13:38 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Why don't you start to send patches then. Seems you have enough free time to look after such issues. Fixing Kernels to work on more (sometimes even important machines, like buildds) is a much more important job than to get rid of oh so

Bug#401482: vdso patch doesn't work against 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1

2007-09-12 Thread Sam Morris
I built a kernel from linux-source-2.6.22 version 2.6.22-4 with the .config taken from linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7 version 2.6.22-4. $ uname -r 2.6.22-fixdso $ gdb sleep (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library

Bug#441973: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686: kernel oops // intel-agp module

2007-09-12 Thread Yaakov Belch
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 Severity: normal Summary (technical details follow below): When I added a videocard to my PC (in addition to the on-bord-video chip), the kernel panics (oops) during bootup. When I manually remove the intel-agp.ko module (which

Bug#441888: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.18-5-686: upgrade overwrites /boot/grub/menu.lst)

2007-09-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:38:34 +0300 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Please close this bug report has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Bug#401482: vdso patch doesn't work against 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1

2007-09-12 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Sam, I found this problem in the stock upstream 2.6.18.8 kernel, and for me the fix involved the following: 1. apply the attached patch (taken from the RHEL 5 kernel source package) 2. build the kernel with CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO disabled 3. use an older version of gcc (I had been testing with

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nathanael Nerode: The most recent linux-source-2.6.22 contains the following files: drivers/media/video/dabfirmware.h Probably okay, could be a frequency table or some kind of bitmap. Who knows. drivers/net/drgs_firmware.c Doesn't exist upstream. Huh? drivers/usb/misc/emi26_fw.h

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11140 March 1977, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I'm not sure I can take the Debian kernel team seriously any more. What team? We dont seem to have a team. The most recent linux-source-2.6.22 contains the following files: [...] In other words, *all* of the above drivers. It's even worse than

Processed: Re: Bug#441985: lm-sensors: Detected sensor module w83627ehf refuses to load

2007-09-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: notfound 441985 1:2.10.1-3 Bug#441985: lm-sensors: Detected sensor module w83627ehf refuses to load Bug no longer marked as found in version 1:2.10.1-3. reassign 441985 linux-2.6 Bug#441985: lm-sensors: Detected sensor module w83627ehf refuses to load

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:25:11AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Coming back to looking at Debian after being preoccupied by family business, I see that the kernel team is not even seriously trying to separate out any

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:42:56PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:39:05AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Non-free material is being included in main for the benefit of *precisely zero* users. There's no two ways about this: this is a Social Contract violation.

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ondrej Certik
I guess the Social Contract really is a joke. I don't know why new applicants are supposed to agree to it. Old members apparently violate it at will for years with no consequences. It doesn't make me respect Debian very much. I am not a DD (yet), but all my packages were very strictly

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:42 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: I guess the Social Contract really is a joke. I don't know why new applicants are supposed to agree to it. Old members apparently violate it at will for years with no consequences. It doesn't make me respect Debian very

Re: Reorganizing packages

2007-09-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:08:47PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: * Featureset infos needs to go into the short and long description, how? No ideas? Bastian -- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, Dagger of the Mind, stardate 2715.1 -- To

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:42:56 +0300, Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:39:05AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Non-free material is being included in main for the benefit of *precisely zero* users. There's no two ways about this: this is a Social Contract

Bug#441860: same problem, same solution, no LVM

2007-09-12 Thread di dit
Hi, I couldn't resume from suspend to disk with initramfs-tools version 0.91 in unstable (i386) kernel linux-image-2.6.22-2-686. Downgrading to version 0.90a solved the problem. Contrarily to the original report, no LVM here. The message I had when it failed was more or less like this (can't

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:39:05AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: The most recent linux-source-2.6.22 contains the following files: drivers/media/video/dabfirmware.h # CONFIG_USB_DABUSB is not set drivers/net/drgs_firmware.c # CONFIG_DGRS is not set drivers/usb/misc/emi26_fw.h

Processing of initramfs-tools_0.91a_amd64.changes

2007-09-12 Thread Archive Administrator
initramfs-tools_0.91a_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: initramfs-tools_0.91a.dsc initramfs-tools_0.91a.tar.gz initramfs-tools_0.91a_all.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#441860: initramfs-tools: Resume from swap partition in LVM doesn't work

2007-09-12 Thread maximilian attems
hello raphael, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Yes, I just did so, I confirm that it works with the version in testing (0.90a). thanks for the quick double check, fixed in incoming in 0.91a. you'll should see it soonest in unstable, keeping the bug open now for dup reports.

Bug#441860: same problem, same solution, no LVM

2007-09-12 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, di dit wrote: I couldn't resume from suspend to disk with initramfs-tools version 0.91 in unstable (i386) kernel linux-image-2.6.22-2-686. Downgrading to version 0.90a solved the problem. Contrarily to the original report, no LVM here. The message I had when it

initramfs-tools_0.91a_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-09-12 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: initramfs-tools_0.91a.dsc to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.91a.dsc initramfs-tools_0.91a.tar.gz to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.91a.tar.gz initramfs-tools_0.91a_all.deb to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.91a_all.deb Override entries

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Jaspert wrote: Oh well, the kernel team just lost its trust, which means new uploads of kernel-team packages dont get their old way of fasttracking in NEW, as I now need to check all of their uploads for such cases. I'm not sure I find this helpful. You're not checking for copyright

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-09-12, Faidon Liambotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Jaspert wrote: You're not checking for copyright violations or for non-free stuff in all other packages. I obviously meant all other *existing* source packages, i.e. all the uploads that don't pass through NEW.

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:07:43 +0300, Faidon Liambotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-09-12, Faidon Liambotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Jaspert wrote: You're not checking for copyright violations or for non-free stuff in all other packages. I obviously meant all

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11140 March 1977, Faidon Liambotis wrote: You're not checking for copyright violations or for non-free stuff in all other packages. I wonder what I did to all those thousands of packages I had in NEW in the past. IMHO, it's not the ftp-master's job to check with each upload if a number

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11140 March 1977, Faidon Liambotis wrote: I don't consider it something needing fixing. It is a good way to have the copyright files occasionally reviewed. I don't think that old source packages are re-reviewed for copyright violations/non-freeness. But I could easily be wrong. Those that

Bug#368788: new data

2007-09-12 Thread Nathan T Savage
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Bug#441985: lm-sensors: Detected sensor module w83627ehf refuses, to load

2007-09-12 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Ok I found the problem. the DHG version of the chip is only supported in kernels = 2.6.21 while you have a 2.6.18 kernel. I am therefore reassigning the bug to the linux-2.6 package and marking this bug fixed in 2.6.21. As you are using stable, you can try to fetch a more recent kernel from

Processed: [SPARC]: non-SMP kernel fail on SunFIres with = 2 CPUs

2007-09-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 440720 debian-installer Bug#440720: 2.6.21-2-sparc64: Kernel fails to boot on SunFire v880 Bug reassigned from package `linux-2.6' to `debian-installer'. retitle 440720 [SPARC]: non-SMP kernel fail on SunFIres with = 2 CPUs Bug#440720:

Bug#440720: [SPARC]: non-SMP kernel fail on SunFIres with = 2 CPUs

2007-09-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reassign 440720 debian-installer retitle 440720 [SPARC]: non-SMP kernel fail on SunFIres with = 2 CPUs thanks After a lot of testing the I didn't manage to find a single non-SMP kernel which would boot on a SunFire v880. As google finds several reports of failed installs on SunFire machines with

Bug#440654: same problem with SMP machines

2007-09-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
although no non-SMP kernel boots on this machine as reported in #440720, even the 2.6.18 SMP kernel from Etch just hangs the machine, just not as badly as the non-SMP kernel. -- Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzed.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#433187: probably a fix?

2007-09-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, applying 179c85ea53bef807621f335767e41e23f86f01df at least allowed me to run aptitude again (without ending with a completely hanging system), although I'm still using the libc6 from Etch. So either this bug is worse on Ultrasparc III cpus (what I assume), or this is just a different bug with