Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian
On 21.12.2012 21:00, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 12/21/2012 09:23 PM, Mikko Rasa wrote: Hi Debian developers, I'm working as a consultant on a project to develop drivers for the PowerVR graphics processor in the Cedarview family of Intel Atom microprocessors in a Debian environment. The current target is Wheezy, and Intel wishes to get the drivers into the official distribution. What they've failed to take into account is that Wheezy is currently frozen in preparation of release, so I'm more than a bit skeptical of getting a new package in (I was only brought in to the project very recently). However, I promised to ask you about this, so here we go. It should be noted that due to licensing issues, the driver will be closed source. The kernel component is under the GPL, so a dkms package will be made. I'm surprised. Wasn't Intel committed to support Opensource for all if their drivers? Are they changing their policy? If so, that's quite bad, since both ATI and Nvidia have been annoying all the community, insisting with non-free drivers. If we're stuck with no alternative, with Intel also going closed source, what type of hardware can we buy then? :( I believe Intel has not changed their policy when it comes to their own hardware. The problem is that the graphics chip included in the recent Atom processors is licensed from Imagination Technologies. Unfortunately IMG is rather more conservative with their licensing and refuses to open up their code. Open source enthusiasts would do well to avoid these Atom models, but the Core i[357] processor families are still safe for the time being. -- Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50dc26e5.8060...@movial.com
d-i wheezy rc1 status; and unblock(-udeb)s, round 4
Hi folks! (Including debian-devel@ to let people know where we stand.) I'm happy to report we're getting closer to a first release candidate for the Debian Installer. I've still got a few packages on my radar, but the list has been steadily shrinking during the last week. That basically boils down to: - busybox vs. setupcon: #606395 (console keymap in g-i) - cdebconf: Info message position (comments welcome): #696699; apparently that one didn't reach the list when I submitted it, bounced today. - grub-installer: install from USB issues. - manual: needs an upload after a few more patches are reviewed. - qcontrol: #696815 (armhf addition, via t-p-u). - yaboot-installer: needs review+upload I'm currently awaiting feedback on the first two; the third one needs some code changes and I'm going to work on it right now; qcontrol can be handled by Ian/release team; yaboot-installer wants somebody to look at it, will do once I'm done with grub-installer unless somebody beats me to it. If you see other things you want to get fixed, now is the time to mention them (by mailing -boot@). Release team, here's a fourth list of unblock(-udeb)s. Still no need for urgents since there's some more work to do. :) ### blindly trusting Samuel unblock brltty/4.4-7 unblock-udeb brltty/4.4-7 ### add preseeding support for keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap unblock console-setup/1.89 unblock-udeb console-setup/1.89 ### fix for #679327 unblock debconf/1.5.49 ### l10n + unrelated-hopefully-harmless better support for crossbuilding unblock eject/2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13 unblock-udeb eject/2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13 ### fix for #694156 (= workaround for #696773) unblock finish-install/2.41 unblock-udeb finish-install/2.41 ### l10n unblock lvmcfg/1.29 unblock-udeb lvmcfg/1.29 ### bits of l10n and tiny improvement merged from Ubuntu unblock partman-partitioning/90 unblock-udeb partman-partitioning/90 ### bug fix for #695908, and a test suite addition, which helped ### confirm the first iteration of the patches was buggy and the ### second one a bit less: unblock preseed/1.57 unblock-udeb preseed/1.57 ### l10n unblock s390-dasd/0.0.29 unblock-udeb s390-dasd/0.0.29 ### l10n unblock s390-netdevice/0.0.35 unblock-udeb s390-netdevice/0.0.35 Thanks already! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
jessie: Mounting /usr in the initramfs
Hi, Hope you're all having a good time over Christmas and New Year. I've created a wiki page here for this proposed release goal for jessie: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/MountUsrInInitramfs Any information you'd like to add to the page for the upstart or systemd init systems would be very useful. Currently, I've included the required changes for initramfs-tools and util-linux (plus patches) and sketched out the needed changes in sysvinit. Any other information or discussion you would like to add would, of course, be appreciated. It won't be possible to get this started in earnest until after wheezy, but I had the opportunity to start playing with it over the last few days. The patches are sufficient to get things going, though they are by no means final. So far I've only tested it with local/local and not on NFS/NFS or combinations of NFS/local; if anyone who cares about these cases would like to test them, that would also be appreciated. One missing bit here is not bringing up the network if the root is local and /usr is on NFS. Shouldn't be hard to add, but I lack the ability to implement and test it until after New Year. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121227232525.gq3...@codelibre.net
Re: Document Debian version#s, not just codenames,
I'm an aging long time user of "sid/unstable". I never could keep track of all those fun names either. Therefore yes please Debian should accompany them by their version number if/when insisting on using them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pq1vulg5@jidanni.org
Bug#696833: ITP: i18nspector -- checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: i18nspector Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Jakub Wilk * URL : http://jwilk.net/software/i18nspector * License : Expat Programming Lang: python Description : checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files i18nspector is a tool for checking translation templates (POT), message catalogues (PO) and compiled message catalogues (MO) files for common problems. These files are used by the GNU gettext translation functions and tools in many different development environments. Checks include: incorrect or inconsistent character encoding, missing headers, incorrect language codes and improper plural forms. This tool was formerly known as gettext-inspector. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121227234534.18579.29079.report...@huma.nanonanonano.net
Work-needing packages report for Dec 28, 2012
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 524 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (new: 2) Total number of packages requested help for: 63 (new: 0) Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information. No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 524 packages are orphaned. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. The following packages have been given up for adoption: ghdl (#696548), offered 5 days ago Description: VHDL compiler/simulator using GCC technology Installations reported by Popcon: 1000 nusoap (#696673), offered 2 days ago Installations reported by Popcon: 674 139 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. For the following packages help is requested: apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1060 days ago Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages Installations reported by Popcon: 60386 asymptote (#517342), requested 1399 days ago Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by MetaPost Installations reported by Popcon: 3976 athcool (#278442), requested 2984 days ago Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors Installations reported by Popcon: 72 balsa (#642906), requested 459 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Installations reported by Popcon: 794 bastille (#592137), requested 873 days ago Description: Security hardening tool Installations reported by Popcon: 190 cardstories (#624100), requested 612 days ago Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another player Installations reported by Popcon: 8 chromium-browser (#583826), requested 942 days ago Description: Chromium browser Installations reported by Popcon: 11421 cloud-init (#693094), requested 45 days ago Description: configuration and customization of cloud instances Installations reported by Popcon: 9 debtags (#567954), requested 1060 days ago Description: Enables support for package tags Installations reported by Popcon: 2465 doc-central (#566364), requested 1069 days ago Description: web-based documentation browser Installations reported by Popcon: 201 fbcat (#565156), requested 1079 days ago Description: framebuffer grabber Installations reported by Popcon: 148 flightgear (#487388), requested 1650 days ago Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator Installations reported by Popcon: 825 freeipmi (#628062), requested 581 days ago Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol Installations reported by Popcon: 2063 gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1717 days ago Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5) Installations reported by Popcon: 2108 gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1582 days ago Description: co-maintainer needed Installations reported by Popcon: 439 gnokii (#677750), requested 194 days ago Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management Installations reported by Popcon: 2259 gnupg (#660685), requested 311 days ago Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement Installations reported by Popcon: 130645 golang (#668870), requested 256 days ago Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage Installations reported by Popcon: 421 gpa (#663405), requested 292 days ago Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA) Installations reported by Popcon: 498 gradle (#683666), requested 147 days ago Description: Groovy based build system Installations reported by Popcon: 26 grub2 (#248397), requested 3153 days ago Description: GRand Unified Bootloader Installations reported by Popcon: 121909 hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1128 days ago Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems Installations reported by Popcon: 1267 horde4 (#686007), requested 122 days ago Description: web-based groupware and other applications hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1675 days ago Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys Installations reported by Popcon: 3039 irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 290 days ago Description: collection of scripts for irssi Installations reported by Popcon: 1159 isdnutils (#661110), requested 307 days ago Description: ISDN utilities Installations reported by Popcon: 7840 jove (#470185), reque
Re: jessie: Mounting /usr in the initramfs
On Dec 28, Roger Leigh wrote: > I've created a wiki page here for this proposed release goal for jessie: > http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/MountUsrInInitramfs Please remove the "Mounting /etc in the initramfs" part. Even ignoring its merit, it has nothing to do with this and mixing up things will not help reaching a consensus. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#696848: general: USB flash drive unmount problems (both squeeze/wheezy)
Package: general Severity: normal Working both in squeeze/xfce/thunar and wheezy/lxde/pcmanfm (both up-to-date). Three computers: Old 1.3GHz/i386, New 2x2.2GHz/amd64 and eeepc 0.9GHz. Tested on Transcend jetflash 4Gb and Kingston DataTraveler 4Gb. When I eject the USB flash drive (by right-clicking and selecting menu option) the system says the "device is safe to be removed", thou if I remove the USB flash drive it results in error in the last file written (not always, but often - almost 100% if the file was written few seconds before). I've noticed the flash drive led flashing a few times after about 5 seconds after unmounting. When I wait for 10 seconds after "safe to be removed" message there are regularily no errors. This problem also appeared with external HDD 750Gb and internal 500Gb HDD through USB to SATA bridge, thou far less often (1 event for each per about 50-100 write operations compared to ~50% for USB flash drive). It seems that the cache doesn't appear to be properly finished to be written on the flash drive. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121228061520.3075.55103.reportbug@localhost
