Stephan Schreiber <info@fs-driver.org> writes: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> So the next step is either to convince Debian's kernel maintainers >> that it is worth including that module in the installer, or the elilo >> maintainers that debian/elilo.sh should not use iocharset=iso8859-1, >> or both. > > Life is hard, I can tell you. I hoped you would do it voluntary :-). > What I want you to do isn't a big thing. Just to allow something, > which is possible with the Debian kernel, also in the d-i. > > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> None of this is particularly relevant to the EFI boot volume, though, >> as all filenames on there should be ASCII-only. > > You are right. It doesn't really matter how this bug is fixed. > > Unfortunately there isn't any message of the elilo maintainer yet. I guess that's me. I didn't read the previous email in enough detail to realize that you expected a reply from me, since the bug was not assigned to elilo at the time and there were other competent folks in the CC list. Reading through the bug log, it appears that you think one choice is to just have the mount call in the elilo.sh not specify iocharset=iso8859-1? What might the consequences of doing that be in other contexts? I haven't thought about this in years. > It seems that you have already decided how the bug will be fixed. > > If you really want a change of elilo.sh, please could *you* do that (nmu). > There wasn'a any activity on the elilo package for months... [shrug] I'm not actually using elilo anywhere myself at the moment, since I haven't booted any of my ia64 systems in many months... and none of the three outstanding bugs against elilo seem particularly urgent. If someone wants to offer up patches, I'm happy to apply them and do an upload. If there's consensus that I should just drop the iocharset= specifier and upload a version with just that change targeting wheezy, I can do that, but it's unlikely to get attention from the release managers without both an RC bug and an unblock request? I'm also happy to discuss handing elilo to another DD more likely to care for it actively if someone wants to volunteer? Bdale
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