On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:57:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm aware of #242866, and I'd be happy to work within > that report. Something about it seems broken, however, > because RC-buggy linux-2.6 packages keep making it into > testing. Is it obvious how to keep this from happening, > without starting a new bug attached to linux-2.6?
if you feel like it reassign it, anyway linux-2.6 is frozen and propagation to testing is coordinated with the release and the d-i team. > Take a near-random example: drivers/scsi/qlogicpti_asm.c well that's not a ramdon sample as linus was _always_ joking on the size of the diffstat due to qlogic firmware upgrades. on the other side a good example to remove people access to their discs. > If you find any of those 59 files that does _not_ look > like it was machine-generated from source code at some > point in its history, or find comments from the author > explaining how they wrote those files from scratch by > typing in hex numbers, please let me know so I can > correct my inventory. If you can even show hints that > a file is miscategorized, I would be happy to participate > in constructive discussion. > > Your throwaway one-liner above is not a good start. your thrown away grepping is the bad start. anyway if you want to improve the legal situtation use: http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing dilinger succeeded in various firmware relicensing thanks to his quest to the vendors. feel free to pick up. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
