Bug#594684: Please apply and rebuild the package
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 15:19:59 +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:05:07 +0200
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru> (18/04/2011):
> > > So... with a patch available for 1 month+, why is this still not
> > > applied and uploaded? The driver is currently useless on MIPS
> > > without this patch. Why do you make people jump through hoops just
> > > to use Debian on the Yeeloong (manually recompiling Xorg)?
> > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install
> >
> > you know about volunteer-based distributions? Debian is one of
> > them. Meaning nobody (generally) gets paid to work on it, and meaning
> > stuff gets done when people have time to.
>
> If a person stepped up to be a maintainer of a package, a certain amount of
> responsibility is expected. If they can not do something as simple as
> applying an already prepared patch in a 1.5 month timeframe, maybe it's
> time for them to just stop holding things up and put the package up as
> orphaned. If you have people waiting and relying on you, and simply can't
> deliver, then just stop wasting everyone's time.
>
> Actually I reviewed the patch and notice it actually touches not the
> -siliconmotion driver, but xserver-xorg-core. Maybe the bug should be
> reassigned as well?
>
I don't think this patch has ever been submitted upstream to Xorg.
Whoever wants it integrated needs to do that.
Cheers,
Julien
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