Bug#698105: Please remove pcmciautils from laptop task

[Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se>]

Hi,

2013-01-22 06:57, Christian PERRIER skrev:
> So, for once, *I* would be the one who is conservative? :-)
> 
> While I understand we'll have to do this some day, I fear some  weird
> regressions for some hardware we still support and I don't really see
> the harm done by having pcmciautils installed.

As I remember it (and as Colin said), you need pcmciautils for 16-bit
PCMCIA cards. I actually run wheezy on an old laptop which does support
16-bit cards (it runs Gnome in fallback mode). I don't use any 16-bit
cards, though.

Perhaps the ideal solution would be to only install pcmciautils in d-i
if the system really does have PCMCIA/Cardbus hardware. It should be
possible to check via /sys.

(Speaking as pcmciautils co-maintainer and former pcmcia-cs maintainer...)

-- 
Pelle