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

[Sven Luther]

Hi Erik, ...

I hope you have been fine, passed well into the  new year and in general had a
good start of the year.

I am writing this to ask you to have a look at the patch in :

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345067

and comment on it, since it seem Jonas is refusing to even consider it until
you give your accord, which sucks bigtim since this means yaird is unusable on
the pegasos machines, which do have a via-ide controller, but powerpc doesn't
build ide-generic at all, so trying to force-include it fails. I believe this
would be the same on a pci-macintosh using a via-ide based pci ide controller.

The patch just makes your force inclusion of ide-generic conditional on the
arch not being powerpc, and is rather trivial as you can see. Maybe not the
best of solutions, but it has the advantage offixing the issue, and as i had
not heard either you or Jonas comenting about this in over a month now, i
believe it is important for an updated yaird to be uploaded, especially as
linux-2.6.15 is scheduled for movinginto etch in the next 2 weeks, and still
defaults on yaird on powerpc.

Friendly,

Sven Luther