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Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird



On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:31:28AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > What do you think?
> 
> Well, after some thinking I actually think we would actually be better
> off with both core and debian dir at Alioth but separate from
> debian-kernel.

Well, you do what you want, but i believe that having at least the debian part
in the kernel svn repo alongside initrd-tools and initramfs-tools is a good
idea.

> I find the traffic on d-k overwhelming too, and a great part of it

d-k kernel traffic is in no way correlated to where the archive is kept.
Nobody forces you to read it.

> (dealing with bugreports against kernels) I am unable to do anything
> sane about. But even if I can cope with the load I would want others
> participating in maintaining also the Debian packaging of yaird, and
> maybe they dislike the "marriage" or the kernel maintainers may start
> worrying about write too many with access to the kernel, as you point
> out also, Erik.

Bah, there are already 30 or so commiters, ...

> Also, I suspect the d-k team generally do not care much about yaird, so

No, i don't think this is right.

> let's flip it around and invite Sven Luther (and whoever else wanting
> to participate) into a separate yaird project at Alioth.

Nope, i don't think i will be able to go into yet-another-alioth-project, or
sorry.

> Let's still keep core and debian dir separate. I certainly want yaird
> have a life outside of Debian, and releasing tarballs without the debian
> dir help that, I believe, but being able to apply patches directly to
> upstream could (if you agree with their quality, Erik) be convenient.

Fine with me, 

Sven Luther



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