On May 07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure i did read it, it is still a shame that firewire webcam support will not > work out of the box with udev because of that. Adding a disclaimer saying you > don't care and don't want to be bothered by this is no solution. And if you The point is not that I do not care, but that I do not want to support half-assed workarounds for bugs in other packages.
> had kept a wishlist bug open or something about this instead of just closing > it ... There is is at least one bug open against either the kernel or lib1394. > At least add a comment about this in the README.Debian so people can easily > setit up themselves, instead of having to investigate over much and maybe not > find the right way to do this themselves. README.Debian explains that this may happen when using broken drivers. > Also, the sarge kernel will not be fixed anymore, since it has been frozen > since a couple of month or so, not sure about lib1394 though, how do you > expect lib1394 to solve this ? By creating the devices itself ? By making the > lib1394 package postinst create it ? By running MAKEDEV in the init script. > Also, i am just curious, are you also one of the DDs who happen to work on > ubuntu too ? Because it is just this kind of behavior which will make people > migrate to it from debian. No, but I encourage Debian users to switch to it. -- ciao, Marco
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