[Yaird-devel] Bug#457461: Bug#457461: Please reevaluate bug#457461

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Oh, and I forgot to mention what I assumed was obvious:

  * Please focus on this meta-claim of too many bugs possibly not RC
    by themselves but together making yaird RC.

  * Please discuss details of each issue at the bugreport filed/forked
    to track that specific issue.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:41:35AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:

>haven't looked at the codebase since longer so taking the changelog
>entries for granted.

Please use the Debian BTS as primary source of bug status!


>* cmdline - ignores any of the boot passed arguments
>  even critical ones like root, rootfs or rootdelay
>
>on the TODO of the webpage, unchanged status.

Minor: http://bugs.debian.org/340759


>* missing debian arch support - for example s390
>
>you still pretend to work everywhere

Serious: http://bugs.debian.org/457461


>* UUID, Label - apparently only works for some fs

Wishlist: http://bugs.debian.org/337065

Details snipped: Please file at above bugreport, not here!


>* missing firmware - several scsi drivers need firmware inside initramfs
>  no loader on initramfs nor any mechanism to add it

Fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/337065

Details snipped: Please file at above bugreport, not here!


>* missing cryptsetup support see #336599

Fixed (cryptsetup generally): http://bugs.debian.org/457464

Wishlist (dm-crypt specifically): http://bugs.debian.org/336599


>* no dmraid support

Normal: http://bugs.debian.org/337724


>* no usplash support

Wishlist: http://bugs.debian.org/457466


>* brutal hardcoding - breaks ony every new linux image
>  either due to /proc, /sys or /boot/config hardcoded parsing
>  see #443821 for the latest 2.6.23 variation

Fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/457467

Details snipped: Please file at above bugreport, not here!


>* dead upstream - 24 debian revisions

Fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/457468

Details snipped: Please file at above bugreport, not here!


>well from my side no cake, 2 points out of 9 got worked on.
>the most grave being no firmware support for loading your root
>device.

Thanks for your input, Max.  Please file at proper bugreports next time!


Do anyone from the release team consider this bug as non-RC, then please 
speak up.


  - Jonas

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