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Re: adam di carlo is back



#include <hallo.h>
* Christian T. Steigies [Tue, Dec 10 2002, 11:26:08PM]:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:35:37AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > 
> > There were some changes now. As said, I did not consider m68k ;)
> > problems as hot problems since there are no "pending" bug reports, even
> > no scarying bug reports at all. At least not here.
> 
> The bug is indeed a bug in MAKEDEV. I think I reassigned it to MAKEDEV (I
> don't think it was fixed yet) and I added a workaround to the boot-floppies.

Bdale wanted to make a new release, iirc.

> A simple rebuild with either a fixed MAKEDEV or current bf will solve the
> problem. I do not have access to my PC, so I can not tell you more details.
> A bf version with this problem fixed is on my people.d.o pages, users either
> replace their root.bin by the new version or fix it manually. No big deal if
> they know where to look. But I still hate to release a new version with a
> known problem which has been fixed months ago... thats why I said I knew you
> were ignoring us, if something like this happened on i386, there would be
> new CDs immediately.

Of course. Such ugly things are easily excused with "experimental
plattform, not many testers, blah, blah" but makes not a good
impression after all.

Well, now it is your time to prepare the new release, please look at
http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
-- 
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ist, dann ist  es auch ein solches Zeichen,  den Fernseher abzuschalten,
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