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Re: the developer in me



On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:47:30AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:08, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > cycle of these drivers is not in sync, so a common driver will not be a
> > good idea. Also, i don't think it gains the user much, since he will at
> > most have only one ADSL modem. You could do a common meta package or
> > whatever it is called which depend on all the drivers though.
> 
> The release cycle not being in sync does not matter.  Speedtouch has not 
> changed in the time I've been maintaining it...

Yes, but the bewan driver is still more actively developped. Also i
suppose the speedtouch modem has not changed because it has gone into
the 2.5.x tree ?

> > > > (Notice that there is an open bug about pppoatm support in the ppp
> > > > debian package, but i think it is mostly ignored).
> > >
> > > Sorry, I've been busy.
> >
> > Mmm, what is the exact maintenerial status of ppp right now ?
> 
> For some time Michael has welcomed NMUs of ppp.  Now he has given the package 
> to me entirely.  So now I am the maintainer.  At some future time Michael may 
> want the package back and I will be happy to hand it over to him in that 
> case.

Ok, ...

> > More seriously, do you think that the 2.4.1.uus package could get the
> > pppoatm patches from Matthew applied to it without to much effort ?
> > Given that you already backported some of the plugin interface stuff ?
> 
> It shouldn't be THAT difficult as long as the patch is against the latest 
> version.  The problem last time I looked at it was that I could only find an 
> already-patched version of pppd and I couldn't find the exact version it was 
> patched against.

Ok, ...

> > I can do testing and packaging, but i really don't have time to adapt
> > the patch myself, also i know nothing about how ppp works internally,
> > and i think my time is better spent on things i know something about
> > (doing X driver developpment right now).
> 
> That's a pity, I think that getting the patch done is the bottleneck here.

Let's hope matthew's patch will help us some.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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