On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:06:45AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > >> > Sigh - seems like Christian and I are the logical suspects... [â?¦] >> > nvram and atari-fdisk may still be useful (what take have the >> > installer people on the latter?). >> >> Recent work on supporting Atari in the debian-installer was done by >> Stephen R. Marenka (CCed). > > I'm aware of Stephen's work on the installer, but thanks anyway. What I > wanted to know (and no doubt, Stephen will enlighten me) is whether we > still need atari-fdisk in the installer. > >> nvsetenv (provided by nvram, IIRC) is used by quik-installer for >> powermac-oldworld. Uploaders for the later are Colin Watson and Wouter >> Verhelst. > > And maintainer for powerpc-utils (provider of nvsetenv both old- and > newworld) is yours truly. So I'm not worried about that one (unless I > missed some critical bug reports; not impossible given my current mail > situation). > > nvram for Atari is something entirely different, and cannot be > substituted by another package. > > I'll look into nvram, atari-fdisk and setsccserial, in that order. > Stephen can take atari-fdisk for all I care (it's no weirder than > atari-bootstrap :) > ... From the BTS, it looks like it's just about acknowledging NMUs and > closing decade old non-bugs. > > CC: to Roman so he can speak up in case he still cares about these > packages (though unlikely). Should we pile all these packages in a git repo on alioth or something? Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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