Bug#260140: ddetect: Should avoid asking PCMCIA questions several times
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > When doing the installation at medium or low priority, the questions about
> > PCMCIA being started or not and PCMCIA address range are asked up to 3 times
> > (at CD detection phase, network hardware detection phase, and hard disk
> > detection phase).
> >
> > I suggest keeping track of the previous answers and the "seen" status of the
> > questions so that they're not asked mor ethan once (unless of course there
> > is a special reasons for boring our users with them....:-)).
>
> If you want to fix this, test the patch for cdebconf bug #257180 and
> back out my change to ddetect 0.103.
I will probably be unable to really test this as suggested. Anyway,
this is probably a post-release issue. I just wanted to record this
remark while I was away.
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