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- To: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Proposed list of udebs for removal
- From: Sven Luther <sven@powerlinux.fr>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:31:35 +0200
- Message-id: <20070817133135.GA16798@powerlinux.fr>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87ps1ml267.fsf@lab.ossystems.com.br>
- References: <[🔎] 87ps1ml267.fsf@lab.ossystems.com.br>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:29:36AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello, > > I've done a look on current available udebs and some look very useless > currently and I'd like to request their removal. For it, I'd like, > first, to discuss here to see if someone complain about: > > - dash-udeb: was used by base-installer ages ago but now not used on > d-i anymore; > - hdparm-udeb: Doesn't look to have been ever used; Can you tell me what the reason for removing them is ? hdparm-udeb sounds like a useful tool to have for hardware diagnostic. Remember that d-i offers the user to hand-install some .udeb packages which are not normally used by d-i. Friendly, Sven Luther
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