On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:29:48PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On jeu, aoû 30, 2007 at 11:51:36 +0000, Luk Claes wrote: > > Pierre Habouzit > > 393403 Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's > > NMUed. > > 294520 qtparted: Incorrect handling of extended partitions The patch is commited with a test in the test-suite. I don't know when the parted maintainers plan to upload, maybe I should do some more kicking around. But it's pending. > > 356055 loadlin: loadlin.exe cannot be built from source On this one, Sam who happens to be yasm maintainer believes upstream is not that interested about the patch of tasm symtax compat that Samuel Thibault wrote before (and that does not apply properly on recent versions anyways). I lack the time to refactor it, and I don't know yasm or tasm, so it doesn't help at all. Though, loadlin seems to be the sole way for some class of users (mostly blind people using braille ttys) to install debian in an accesibility PoV. win32-loader does not helps very well in that regard according to people I talked about this issue to. So I fear that if we want the issue to be fixe, the available options are the statu-quo (which is against DFSG) or the move to contrib. Note that what really matters is that loadlin.exe is present in our CDs. Strictly speaking, loadlin is 100% free, it's just that we don't have the tool in Debian to build it. I may be flamed to death for what I'll say, but I'm not sure why we couldn't ship a loadlin.exe on the CDs with loadlin in contrib. It seems somehow unfair to me to prevent blind people to install debian properly (and not use loadlin.exe ever after that) because not enough well-sighted people are interested in fixing it. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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