All, First I have to say this email isn't targeted at any specific people by name but rather to all of those who are interested in seeing further linux sparc development (and especially Debian sparc development). I've been trying to follow the current debate regarding niagara testing/ bug fixes and I have to admit that the bureaucracy is a bit intimidating at best. I've recently (over the past year or so) started focusing on Debian now that Canonical no longer officially supports sparc on Ubuntu, figuring that although most of our hardware here is older hardware, moving towards Debian directly will at least give the OS a chance at remaining up to date. It's my understanding that there are a team of people who are focused on the sparc kernel itself (which is used by Debian as well as some of the other distributions - Aurora, etc). It's also my understanding that there are a team of people who are focused on making sure that the sparc port of Debian works properly as a complete Debian OS distribution for sparc. In addition, I understand that there's also a team of people who are focused on making sure that the Debian distribution as whole (non-arch specific) functions properly and that changes on one port don't end up inadvertently causing problems for other Debian ports. Likewise I understand that there's a team of people who are focused on making sure that the linux kernel as a whole functions properly and that changes specific to one arch don't end up inadvertently causing problems for other linux kernel archs. My question is - when I find things that worked in Ubuntu sparc but not on Debian, what is the proper procedure for resolving the issue? Is there a checklist or flowchart anywhere public that should be followed when issues are found? I'm guessing the first step is probably to determine whether it's a kernel issue or an issue external to the kernel so that a bug report can be filed with the correct team (while also checking to see if the issue has already been reported), but again that's just a guess. And, I'm by no means asking for professional assistance or intending to criticize anyone's prior efforts. I really would like to understand the big picture though so that I know all of the steps starting with discovering a new issue to the issue being resolved in the next Debian release. That way I can follow through and assist where I can while at the same time not stepping on anyones toes. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html