Adopters for m68k specific packages?

[Frank Lichtenheld]

Hi.

While I was going through the list of orphaned packages which
have not a correct maintainer field yet (i.e.
http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html) I noticed three fairly
m68k specific packages are on the list:

atari-fdisk
nvram
setsccserial

I thought before I try to compile them on crest myself I might ask
if maybe anyone on this list would be interested in adopting them.

Gruesse,
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[Michael Schmitz-4]

Hi,

> While I was going through the list of orphaned packages which
> have not a correct maintainer field yet (i.e.
> http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html) I noticed three fairly
> m68k specific packages are on the list:
>
> atari-fdisk
> nvram
> setsccserial
>
> I thought before I try to compile them on crest myself I might ask
> if maybe anyone on this list would be interested in adopting them.

Sigh - seems like Christian and I are the logical suspects... I'll take a
look at them. setsccserial in its current state will only be useful for
2.2.x kernels, that much I can say without looking at the code (i.e., I
removed the necessary ioctls while rewriting the kernel driver for 2.4 and
later). nvram and atari-fdisk may still be useful (what take have the
installer people on the latter?).

  Michael

(ping me again if I have not come up with something by the end of the
month)


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[Jérémy Bobbio-2]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:36:08AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> >While I was going through the list of orphaned packages which
> >have not a correct maintainer field yet (i.e.
> >http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html) I noticed three fairly
> >m68k specific packages are on the list:
> >
> >atari-fdisk
> >nvram
> >[…]
> >
> >I thought before I try to compile them on crest myself I might ask
> >if maybe anyone on this list would be interested in adopting them.
>
> Sigh - seems like Christian and I are the logical suspects... […]
> nvram and atari-fdisk may still be useful (what take have the
> installer people on the latter?).

Recent work on supporting Atari in the debian-installer was done by
Stephen R. Marenka (CCed).

nvsetenv (provided by nvram, IIRC) is used by quik-installer for
powermac-oldworld. Uploaders for the later are Colin Watson and Wouter
Verhelst.

Cheers,
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[Stephen R Marenka]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:36:08AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> While I was going through the list of orphaned packages which
>> have not a correct maintainer field yet (i.e.
>> http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html) I noticed three fairly
>> m68k specific packages are on the list:
>>
>> atari-fdisk
>> nvram
>> setsccserial
>>
>> I thought before I try to compile them on crest myself I might ask
>> if maybe anyone on this list would be interested in adopting them.
>
> Sigh - seems like Christian and I are the logical suspects... I'll take a
> look at them. setsccserial in its current state will only be useful for  
> 2.2.x kernels, that much I can say without looking at the code (i.e., I  
> removed the necessary ioctls while rewriting the kernel driver for 2.4
> and later). nvram and atari-fdisk may still be useful (what take have the
> installer people on the latter?).

I'd like to keep atari-fdisk around at least until we're sure parted can
really replace it and everyone be comfortable if not happy. If
necessary, I can take it. It can't be stranger than me working on
atari-bootstrap. ;)

Thanks,

Stephen

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
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[Brad Boyer]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> nvsetenv (provided by nvram, IIRC) is used by quik-installer for
> powermac-oldworld. Uploaders for the later are Colin Watson and Wouter
> Verhelst.

No, the nvsetenv program on powerpc is provided by the powerpc-utils
package. This is the case in sarge and etch.

http://packages.debian.org/etch/powerpc-utils

The nvram package according to the packages.debian.org site is m68k only.

        Brad Boyer
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[Michael Schmitz-4]

Hi,

> > Sigh - seems like Christian and I are the logical suspects... [â?¦]
> > nvram and atari-fdisk may still be useful (what take have the
> > installer people on the latter?).
>
> Recent work on supporting Atari in the debian-installer was done by
> Stephen R. Marenka (CCed).

I'm aware of Stephen's work on the installer, but thanks anyway. What I
wanted to know (and no doubt, Stephen will enlighten me) is whether we
still need atari-fdisk in the installer.

> nvsetenv (provided by nvram, IIRC) is used by quik-installer for
> powermac-oldworld. Uploaders for the later are Colin Watson and Wouter
> Verhelst.

And maintainer for powerpc-utils (provider of nvsetenv both old- and
newworld) is yours truly. So I'm not worried about that one (unless I
missed some critical bug reports; not impossible given my current mail
situation).

nvram for Atari is something entirely different, and cannot be substituted
by another package.

I'll look into nvram, atari-fdisk and setsccserial, in that order. Stephen
can take atari-fdisk for all I care (it's no weirder than atari-bootstrap :)
... From the BTS, it looks like it's just about acknowledging NMUs and
closing decade old non-bugs.

CC: to Roman so he can speak up in case he still cares about these
packages (though unlikely).

  Michael

[Stephen R Marenka]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:06:45AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> > Sigh - seems like Christian and I are the logical suspects... [â?¦]
>> > nvram and atari-fdisk may still be useful (what take have the
>> > installer people on the latter?).
>>
>> Recent work on supporting Atari in the debian-installer was done by
>> Stephen R. Marenka (CCed).
>
> I'm aware of Stephen's work on the installer, but thanks anyway. What I  
> wanted to know (and no doubt, Stephen will enlighten me) is whether we  
> still need atari-fdisk in the installer.
>
>> nvsetenv (provided by nvram, IIRC) is used by quik-installer for
>> powermac-oldworld. Uploaders for the later are Colin Watson and Wouter
>> Verhelst.
>
> And maintainer for powerpc-utils (provider of nvsetenv both old- and  
> newworld) is yours truly. So I'm not worried about that one (unless I  
> missed some critical bug reports; not impossible given my current mail  
> situation).
>
> nvram for Atari is something entirely different, and cannot be
> substituted by another package.
>
> I'll look into nvram, atari-fdisk and setsccserial, in that order.
> Stephen can take atari-fdisk for all I care (it's no weirder than
> atari-bootstrap :)
> ... From the BTS, it looks like it's just about acknowledging NMUs and  
> closing decade old non-bugs.
>
> CC: to Roman so he can speak up in case he still cares about these  
> packages (though unlikely).

Should we pile all these packages in a git repo on alioth or something?

Peace,

Stephen

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[Michael Schmitz-4]

Hi,

>> I'll look into nvram, atari-fdisk and setsccserial, in that order.
>> Stephen can take atari-fdisk for all I care (it's no weirder than
>> atari-bootstrap :)
>> ... From the BTS, it looks like it's just about acknowledging NMUs and
>> closing decade old non-bugs.
>>
>> CC: to Roman so he can speak up in case he still cares about these
>> packages (though unlikely).
>
> Should we pile all these packages in a git repo on alioth or something?

I doubt they'll see any actual development (apart from packaging cleanup).

It's not exactly dead code in the strict sense of meaning, but it's not
smelling of roses anymore, either :-)

If you want to go the extra mile and set them up on alioth, by all means
go for it. I just don't see much need for that.

Cheers,

  Michael


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