[Yaird-devel] Bug#457177: Bug#457177: Bug#457177: keep yaird out of Testing

[Andreas Barth]

* Sven Luther (sven at powerlinux.fr) [071222 19:41]:
> Andreas, face it, Max speaks as a strong supporter of initramfs-tools,
> the concurent of yaird, and has shown real antagonism and agressivity
> toward yaird since the begining of the initrd->initramfs migration.

Please avoid dragging this discussion from technical issues into
personal issues and speculations. This doesn't help, and this is the
last mail of this kind which will get any answer from me.

I've discussed this with a long-term kernel team member, and he agrees
that yaird is not keeping up for quite some time, and is a significant
source of bug reports for the kernel team. It also is true that maks is
opposing yaird, but that is for good technical resons which is fair and
accepted behaviour.

This all shouldn't prevent the yaird team to get back to speed, and keep
up with the kernel. But as there doesn't seem any use case where we
definitly need yaird, I think the kernel team can ask for this
significant source of bug reports to be marked as seriously broken.

It is the responsibility of the yaird team to fix that. And "fix that"
really involves "getting to speed", which is more than just fixing
individual bugs, but e.g. pre-activly fixing things not filled yet, or
getting back an active upstream. Debian isn't the reservoir for outdated
broken software.



Cheers,
Andi
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