[arch-general] Status of linux 2.6.25 kernel

2008-05-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
What's the status of the 2.6.25 kernel in testing? Any showstoppers left? Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-02 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:11:48PM +0200, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > > And I don't hear much complaints about the distro-patching from > > > developers (exceptions: Jörg Schilling for example). A bit going > > > further, I think that "patchability" is one of the main power of > > > open source; and I se

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-02 Thread Nagy Gabor
> > And I don't hear much complaints about the distro-patching from > > developers (exceptions: Jörg Schilling for example). A bit going > > further, I think that "patchability" is one of the main power of > > open source; and I see nothing wrong (fundamentally) in the common > > practice, that dis

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-02 Thread Xavier
Nagy Gabor wrote: No big deal. (I've rebuilt it.) But if you also think, that it should be rebuilt, then why is sitting that buggy package in repo? I have the feeling that the main reason of "no patch" is minimizing the developer-responsibility, which is in fact understandable. To be honest, I do

Re: [arch-general] Upstream bugs, patches

2008-05-02 Thread Nagy Gabor
> Nagy Gabor wrote: > > An example: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5861 > > This is quite an old bug, and we are just waiting and waiting... > > > > Sometimes packagers are slow, sometimes upstream is slow. This is not > so surprising, the time of open source developers is always too > limited :