From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MYSfm-0004g7-Bj for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:39:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYSfk-0004fn-NU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:39:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYSfg-0004fQ-B2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:39:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37811 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYSfg-0004fM-3O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:39:52 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:52253 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYSff-0006M8-LT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:39:51 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYSfa-0005Ob-4R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:39:46 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYSfZ-0001Kz-FV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:39:45 +0200 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 00:39:45 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090804223945.GA5078@thorin> References: <20090731144632.GA14036@thorin> <4A7337AE.5020505@t-online.de> <20090801142523.GB22989@thorin> <4A745A06.4010604@t-online.de> <20090802213111.GB15139@thorin> <1MXtv1-0mkKXY0@fwd00.aul.t-online.de> <1249331358.7265.6.camel@mj> <20090804203022.GC15811@thorin> <4A78AC09.2000705@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A78AC09.2000705@t-online.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: grub-pe2elf X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:39:56 -0000 On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:45:45PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > I'm somewhat worried that these complaints are delayed by more than a year I noticed by chance. We were talking about something else on IRC, when Bean mentioned that objcopy has bug when converting from PE to ELF. Later he pointed at the thread in which this was discussed. We can't expect _anyone_ to be continously watching every commit and checking the corresponding discussions related to it that happened in the few months that precede the commit. If someone had to do that, that person wouldn't have time to do anything else. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."