On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:50:59 +0100 Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> wrote: > ]] Neil Williams > > | if you start seeing bugs or getting email about your packages where the > | version string ends in em[0-9], or where dependencies mentioned by > | reportbug include such a version suffix, the user is running one of the > | two Emdebian distributions released alongside lenny (and based on lenny > | packages). You might also see Emdebian in the output of 'apt-cache > | policy' if your bug reports request or supply such data. > | > | If there is any doubt that the bug is present in Debian, please > | immediately re-assign the bug to the buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package > | in the BTS. > > Why should those bugs not first be filed in the emdebian bug tracker and > if appropriate filed in the Debian BTS too? Emdebian does not have a bug tracker separate from Debian - Emdebian only uses the Debian BTS via the buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package in the Debian BTS (and a few user tags). Users are advised to report bugs to the pseudo-package but all the development for Grip happened during the release freeze for Lenny, so none of the bug reporting tools could be adapted to suit within that time frame. (Grip does not recompile any packages). Emdebian is not separate from Debian, Emdebian is Debian (just smaller) and there is no desire for any separation - especially in bug trackers. Neither Emdebian variant changes the output of lsb_release, or re-brands any of the Debian content or modifies any of the themes or adds any content that is Emdebian-specific except that which is absolutely necessary for the system to work on the target device. Suite names and codenames are identical, release schedules are identical - an Emdebian box is Debian, just a smaller Debian. Once installation is complete, the only signs that you are running Emdebian are: 1. the version suffix of packages 2. the smaller installation size 3. the repository name 4. (in Crush only) some reduced package functionality to cut out unwanted dependency chains (like LDAP) or due to the removal of other packages (like perl or python). If other differences do appear at runtime, feel free to report those as bugs - via the buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package in the Debian BTS. You won't find an Emdebian logo anywhere in either Crush or Grip - it's all the original Debian content. For more on how Emdebian and Debian work together, see: http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/emdebian.html > At least for your > recompiled-with-other-options-and-random-bits-stripped-out variant, this > seems much more appropriate than assuming the bugs actually exists in > Debian in the first place. Indeed, so Crush does advise that bugs should be filed against the pseudo-package in the Debian BTS. (Crush itself does not currently provide reportbug because python - like perl - is simply too big.) I probably should have stated that users are advised to use the pseudo-package in the BTS (or debian-embedded@lists.debian.org) directly and that bugs filed against the Debian package are probably a mistake - at least unless re-assigned or cloned from a bug already filed against the pseudo-package buildd.emdebian.org. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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