[Yaird-devel] Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:03:17AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Subject: Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as 
>          the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to 
>          do his job without this.

> > reassign 345067 tech-ctte
> Bug#345067: [powerpc] ide-generic is not built on powerpc, yaird tries to include it and fails
> Bug#343427: linux-image-2.6.14-2-powerpc: Installation fails
> Bug reassigned from package `yaird' to `tech-ctte'.

I can see there's some sort of dispute over this bug, but I can't see a
precise explanation of exactly what it breaks. 

Jonas Smedegaard's comment in #343427, in response to Sven Luther:

> > The ide-generic module is not built on powerpc,
> In the _current_ _official_ kernel package in Debian, or in any
> sysfs-supporting powerpc Linux kernel ever, locally built or not?

seems to be the important question; and I gather the answer is that the
official kernel packages don't use it, but that some can. Contents-powerpc
seems to bear this out, as does my config-2.6.15-1-powerpc:

# CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC is not set

Has anyone at all spoken to the via82cxxx upstream about getting the
dependency information fixed so that this hack isn't needed in the
first place?

Cheers,
aj

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