I'm extremely disappointed that we've not yet been able to switch D-I over to 2.6.25, but the plain fact is that the needed work is just not being done. The basic problem seems to be that we don't have a maintainer for kernel-wedge. Joey has done that job up to 2.6.22 with occasional contributions by others, Otavio did most of the work for 2.6.24 and I've made a start on 2.6.25, but nobody has finished it [1]. I've indicated this before, but to make it very clear: I do not want this job. Not on top of everything else I'm already doing. So please stop asking me. The only reason I started on .25 was that I hoped that doing the more "technical" part of the switch would enable someone else to quickly finish the job. I'm also not willing to do any further work on new stuff that basically requires the switch to .25, including the proposed Xen and speakup patches, before kernel-wedge has been properly updated. I will look at those subjects again afterwards. My apologies to Ian and Samuel for that, but that's just how I feel about it. So is there anybody out there who will pick up the job of kernel-wedge maintainer, not just for .25, but for the next few kernel upstream releases? Just leaving it to "the team" is obviously not working. Maintaining kernel-wedge is really only needed for switches from one upstream kernel minor version to the next (as in .24 -> .25). But at that point it really does need to be done, and done carefully and well. And because it needs to be done before the switch can be made, it needs to be done promptly. That it needs to be done carefully can be seen from #485961, where an incorrect change for a module rename broke support for ESP SCSI on sparc. Cheers, FJP [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/05/msg00997.html
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