Re: unused udebs?

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> [2004-05-13 11:21]:
> >  atari-fdisk
> This may be unused but I'm not sure.

No, it is used.  partman doesn't work on atari:

    - Don't use partman for m68k/atari and q40 at all (isinstallable),
      but make it default for all other m68k subarchs.

> >  dhcp
> >  dhcp3
> 
> One of these is not used, but we'll keep them both in case we decide to
> change.

I think we're in the process of switching from dhcp to dhcp3, but I
agree with Joey about keeping them.

> >  jfsutils
> 
> We don't currently use this package, but it can remain in case someone
> wants to add the UI support for creating jfs filesystems.

In fact, someone just requested this today.

> >  kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips
> 
> AFAIK we're using the linux-kernel-di system for the mips kernel udebs
> now, do the udebs procuded by this package are not needed. We're also up
> to the 2.4.25 kernel on mips now. At least the udebs from this source
> pacage can be removed, I think.

The udebs can definitely go, but Karsten wants to keep the 2.4.19
package in the archive for a while.  We'll definitely remove it before
sarge is released, though.

> >  mii-diag
> I don't know of anything that uses this or why this produces a udeb.

I just requested this udeb, but it seems joshk incorporated its source
code into d-i directly because it's so small.  I'm not sure whether
this is a good idea or not.

> >  raidtools2
> 
> I don't see anything stating a depends on this, I think we use mdadm
> instead?

Yes, we se mdadm.  I'm considering supporting both mdadm and
raidtools2, but this would basically mean a) creating the right config
file and b) installing the right package in the chroot.  For d-i, we
could just use mdadm in both cases.  So this udeb is not needed.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com