Hi SPARC porters, hi Jurij! Since my last attempt to contact Jurij wasn't successful and I'm actually not sure, if Jurij is still active (as a SPARC porter), I'm reposting the full email, hoping to gather some feedback from the Debian SPARC porters. Regards, Michael Am 29.03.2013 22:16, schrieb Michael Biebl: > Hi Jurij, > > afaics you are one of the SPARC porters and the original bug submitter > of [1]. > As you are probably aware, the udev sources have been merged into the > systemd source tree. This also affects the Debian udev package which > will be built from the systemd source package in the future. > While preparing a new release and importing bits from the old udev > package I stumbled upon vio_type and it's accompanying udev rules and > was wondering what to do about that. > > Since no-one in the systemd/udev team is using SPARC hardware, I was > wondering, if vio_type would have a better home in e.g. the sparc-utils > [2] package, where it would be maintained and tested by people with > knowledge of that architecture. > Seeing a bug report like [3], it's not actually clear to me, if vio_type > is still functional with newer kernel releases and for which type of > hardware this is actually required. I poked Marco about this, but he > doesn't remember the details anymore. > > Specifically, this would mean moving the /lib/udev/vio_type helper > binary and the VIO bits from /lib/udev/rules.d/80-drivers.rules into > sparc-utils proper. > > Jurij, what do you think about the idea in general? Do you also think > this would make sense or do you see problems with this proposal? > If you are open to the idea, we could discuss and work on the technical > details. > > (Please CC the pkg-systemd-maintainers m-l on your reply) > > Cheers, > Michael > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526621 > [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sparc-utils.html > [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678264#96 > > -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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