Bug#345067: [Yaird-devel] Bug#345067: ide-geenric inclusion even if it doesn't exist.

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:11:44PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:20:34 +0100
> Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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> > i, wearing my powerpc debian kernel maintainer hat, know that
> > it is not needed on powerpc.
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> This indicates that you are talking about a single kernel build - the
> one provided by the kernel team, not powerpc kernels in general.

Jonas, can you please explain me how you can come to the conclusion that
ide-generic is *NEEDED* on powerpc, if there is at least one kernel config
which does not have it and works perfectly ? 

I think you are just arguing for the sake of arguing, and failing to even try
to understand the issue at hand ? 

> Yaird is a general tool for ramdisk generation. Not fitting in with
> some grand plan of the kernel team possible is brokenness of the tool,
> but not an RC bug. So thanks for lowering the status, Sven.

Sure, i guess this means my vote will have to go for no more supporting yaird
as default ramdisk generator in these conditions.

> And could we please now look at this as a non-urgent matter?
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> I still suspect that your proposed fix, Sven, can hurt in cases other
> than the specific one you know and care about.

This opinion of yours will only be acceptable if you can bring me a single use
case scenario where this is the case.

Frankly, i am sick of discussing this with you, since you fail to provide any
kind of valid argument, apart from you believing it may hurt, while you have
absolutely no idea of what you are speaking about, and i have no understanding
of you hurting the pegasos users just because you don't want to take the time
to even consider the issue as you should.

Remember, i do debian/pegasos support as RL job, and by your stubborness you
hurt me in my day job and cost me money, so please understand the issue at
hand and try to find a solution, instead of just trying to justify your
inaction with circular arguments without fundation.

It is a damn 3 line patch or so, and it would have taken you less time to
investigate this than you lost in replying to this email.

Sven Luther