Marc Haber <mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de> (27/01/2010): > Hi, Hi,
(sorry for the lag, been busy with g-i.) > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:46:58AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Marc Haber <mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de> (12/11/2009): > > > out-of-tree-modules are migrating to a new byzantine format called > > > DKMS. DKMS-"supporting"-modules cannot be built with > > > module-assistant any more which breaks existing setups. > > > > I guess people switching to DKMS are welcome to provide an upgrade > > path. > > You mean a downgrade path. It's ten years past that we forced people > to have a build toolchain and sources on productive systems. If I > wanted to do this, I'd run Genttoo or *BSD. Whatever you call it. I'm not that much interested in digging out how to support this “new byzantine format” within module-assistant. As I said, I would welcome patches though. > > I'm happy to see people work on a more evolved solution than m-a, > > Actually m-a is a very much more evolved solution that building the > modules on the target system. You may want to talk to those folks and convince them they're doing things wrong, then? > > but package maintainers switching from one to another should be > > the ones supporting the upgrade path for their users, rather than > > the abandoned framework's maintainer. :) > > Is m-a abandoned? If so, why is it still in stable? See its changelog. It's not full of fancy new features in every upload, but I don't think it's buggy as hell. Also, being abandoned has little to do with being removed from stable. Mraw, KiBi.
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