Re: powerpc dailies back

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Hi, all.

On Apr 20 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 20 April 2009, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > In setting up everything on the powerbook, I did not trouble myself
> > to re-enable the miboot builds anymore, since I understand they've
> > been long broken and nobody is working on them;
> 
> Agreed.

I am interested to know what is needed to contribute with the ppc side
of things in Debian. I care about the oldworld machines (at least, as
long as mine works).

> > and, also, since I can't seem to find the miboot package anymore
> > that's needed to do this (I believe Sven Luther used to maintain
> > them, but, well).
> 
> I "rescued" it from his $HOME on p.d.o:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/pub/miboot/

I just did a facelift of the package and I think that it could enter
non-free, perhaps. Here are my modifications:

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:37:43 -0300
Source: miboot
Binary: miboot
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0d4-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>
Changed-By: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
Description: 
 miboot     - Linux bootloader for OldWorld PowerMac computers
Changes: 
 miboot (1.0d4-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * The "don't let miboot die" release.
   * debian/compat: create it with a 5.
   * debian/watch: create watchfile for BenH's page.
   * debian/copyright:
     + include copyright notice.
     + include notice that packages in non-free are not part of Debian.
     + include information where GPL-2 can be found on Debian systems.
   * debian/control:
     + include debhelper on build-deps.
     + include homepage field.
     + change section to non-free/admin.
   * debian/rules:
     + include call to dh_md5sums.
     + include mandatory binary-arch target.
Checksums-Sha1: 
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 4eb41fdf616f55c064c8b7a159386a583d6ebcf4 4596 miboot_1.0d4-2.1.diff.gz
 7f45256ea86463de42a3723226cf8713b35fe416 32586 miboot_1.0d4-2.1_all.deb
Checksums-Sha256: 
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 e06847095dcca15bbe3c4fc650721ef064ad02aac3d7ee744666dd8ab99e43b0 4596 miboot_1.0d4-2.1.diff.gz
 76b716a0bfee94146d056ccb0a8be7c803c359cac515cb58c4ae2e6c2c92484d 32586 miboot_1.0d4-2.1_all.deb
Files: 
 334783f9515cfe8dfd54137f0ccc3be6 750 non-free/admin optional miboot_1.0d4-2.1.dsc
 0408e04e9a9ba761c2b43a4cd57e15f5 4596 non-free/admin optional miboot_1.0d4-2.1.diff.gz
 e2121c65a56e1008f51cce9f1b34d1c1 32586 non-free/admin optional miboot_1.0d4-2.1_all.deb
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Thanks, Rogério Brito.

P.S.: Please, CC'me, as I am not subscribed to this list (this is also
the reason why I am CC'ing Frans---so that the message doesn't get
lost).
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