On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:47:35AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > the description of read-edid in stable says: "get-edid uses > architecture-specific methods for querying the video hardware > (real-mode x86 instructions on i386, Open Firmware device tree parsing on > PowerMac) and is therefore only available for i386 and powerpc architectures." > > Unfortunatly powerpc support was added in the last NMU, where the description > was also changed to what it is now, but > http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/Packages-arch-specific was not updated to > reflect that. > > I wonder if+how this should be fixed in stable. Fix the description or > Packages-arch-specific? I think it would be better for our users if we modified P-a-s (and added read-edid for PowerPC in the next stable release), but I don't know what the arguments against doing so might be. -- G. Branden Robinson | Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who branden@debian.org | need strength in numbers. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Jesse Ventura
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