Re: Why discover1-data is so old in Debian Sarge, while in unstable is up to date ?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Mantas Kriau??i??nas]
> I just wonder why Debian Sarge is going to be relesed with old, outdated 
> discover1-data package, while in unstable exist up to date package which 
> detects more hardware, for example more populiar video cards from NVIDIA 
> and ATI.
> Please allow updating discover1-data from unstable to testing.

Oh, I believed it had entered sarge a long time ago.  Yes, I agree
that the latests version should go into Sarge.  (I'm one of the more
passive maintainers. :)

Cc to debian-release, to pledge that the release managers include
version 1.2005.04.23 of discover1-data in Sarge.

These are the changelog entries since the version currently in sarge
(1.2005.01.08).  As you can see, quite a lot of new hardware are now
recognized.

discover1-data (1.2005.04.23) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Petter Reinholdtsen
    - PCI entry 11864c00 uses kernel module sk98lin, at least for
      kernel 2.6.8-1-386. (Closes: #302785)
    - List a few likely broadcom ethernet devices as such.
    - Try to load the correct X driver for ATI Radeon 9600,
      PCI ID 10024172. (Closes: #274039)
    - Updated several unknown devices based on kernel 2.4.27-1-686
      module info.
    - Set 'usb' device type on several devices with 'USB' and
      'Controller' in the name.
    - PCI entries 10de01c3, 10de0066, 10de00d6, 10de0086, 10de008c,
      10de00e6, 10de00df, 10de0056, 10de0057, 10de0037 and 10de0038
      uses ethernet module forcedeth. (Closes: #299824 #305336)
    - PCI entry 10025835 is a video card using XFree86 module radeon.
      (Closes: #283399)
    - Updated pci.lst using hw-db-merge.pl to include the latest IDs
      and names from <URL:http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids.gz>.
  * Joshua Kwan
    - Add ipw2200 for 8086:4220, 8086:4223 (special module > no module.)
    - Add snd-intel8x0m for 8086:24c6 (ditto)
  * Gaudenz Steinlin
    - Add ata_piix for 8086:2653

 -- Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>  Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:36:07 -0700

iscover1-data (1.2005.03.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * Petter Reinholdtsen
    - Fix typo in reportbug script, making sure the detected kernel modules
      are included in the bug report. (Closes: #301859)
    - PCI entires 108e1648, 10b780eb, 14e44301, 14e44320, 14e44324 and
      80864220 are ethernet devices.
    - Updated pci.lst using hw-db-merge.pl to include the latest IDs
      and names from <URL:http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids.gz>.
    - PCI entries 10023150, 10023154, 10023e50 and 10023e54 are video
      devices.
    - PCI entry 104c8031 is a PCMCIA bridge device.
    - PCI entry 11800822 is a SD Card reader.
    - Add new script check-pcireport to the source, making it easier
      to process bug reports.
    - PCI entry 12440a00 should use the hisax module, not the
      hisax_fcpcipnp module. (Closes: #286897)
  * Joshua Kwan
    - Add some _very_ likely module bindings for a few of the new PCI entries.

 -- Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:15:52 -0800

discover1-data (1.2005.03.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * David Nusinow
    - Add 106b:0051 sungem Apple Shasta; Closes: #299556
  * Joshua Kwan
    - Add bridge/ohci1394 for 104c:8020. closes: #291144
  * Christian Perrier
    - Add bridge/ohci1394 for 104c:8027. closes: #288522
    - Add detection of Nvidia GeForce4 FX 4000 AGP 8x. Thanks
      to Otavio Salvador for the patch. Closes: #295704

 -- David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:05:39 +0100