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Bug#683790: switching d-i to kmod



Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

While the kmod package has been providing since January an udeb package 
intended as the replacement for module-init-tools-udeb, it was never 
actually used due to an unfortunate misunderstanding about how d-i is 
supposed to load modules.

wheezy cannot be released with module-init-tools-udeb because 
module-init-tools is abandoned upstream and by me, and I am not even 
sure if it can be uploaded again in its current form since kmod has 
taken over the module-init-tools binary package name.
Also it is not a good idea to use different modprobe implementations in 
the the installer and in the installed system.

kmod has replaced module-init-tools in unstable since March with no 
significant issues and now it is used by every other distribution.

I think that the libkmod2-udeb package is ready to replace 
module-init-tools-udeb, but if any changes are still needed I commit to 
fixing it quickly to prevent breaking the installer.
(It is not compiled with -Os right now due to a bug, but I already have 
a fix ready to be uploaded.)

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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