Bug#127750: Hijacking speedtouch ?
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:27:06AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> mail to nnnn@bugs.d.o is only sent to the owner, not bug submitter.
> The owner is wnpp, but Robot is the submitter...
Thanks for bringing this to my attention Martin! Deadlines you don't
know about are somewhat unfair, not to mention difficult to respond
to!
> > this ITP is one year and three months old. Would you mind if I hijack
> > your ITP and finish the packaging ?
I have written debconf templates for the necessary questions to generate
an initial working configuration. I never got round to the script, and
that's the only reason I havn't completed this package. I wanted to also
make a netinst ISO which had the deb in the base system, and configured
the speedtouch stuff before going on to configure apt.
> I'd personally just go ahead. Robot went off to college and problably
> doesn't care about USB modems anymore...
I do! My home is still connected to ADSL 24/7 and I use it daily to
check all of my mail except that delivered to my university address.
> also note that Russell Coker
> recently orphaned 190312: O: kernel-patch-2.4-speedtouch.
This is not relevant to these userland drivers, the kernel-side driver
is alcatel binary evilness. These userland drivers use usbdevfs to talk
to the modem directly and only need the firmware off the driver CD.
Hence they are 'contrib' material.
> > Upstream has issued a package
> > based on an early version of your work, but there is still a lot of
> > work to do.
I've been in #speedtouch on Freenode regularly for the past year and a
half or so, and I don't see much going on. Maybe they moved to OFTC
without telling me.
> > If no one objects, I will take this and work with upstream. Robert,
> > if you don't have time enough to answer to this, I will hijack your
> > package in two weeks.
When I'm back at my own PC (later today) I will send you a tarball of
what I've done so far. I don't have much time to do any more work on the
packages now, so I'm happy to let you take over. I'd have been happier
if you'd actually contacted me and asked, rather than threatening...
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com
Regards,
Rob
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