Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i [Was: Re: Bug#939798: kickseed: remove floppy support]

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi Adrian,

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 9/8/19 10:53 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> > Package: kickseed
> > tags: patch
> > 
> > in attachment, patch to remove floppy support from the kickseed package.
> 
> Why does floppy support need to be removed? It might be usable for any of
> the architectures we use in Debian Ports like m68k or powerpc.
> 
> Unless there is a compelling reason to remove it, I would rather keep
> floppy support.

I assume, this bugreport was motivated by bug #880122 by Chris Lamb from 2017,
which proposed to remove floppy support from hw-detect package, since
floppies appear to no longer be widely used for ages:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880122


The same bugreport made me working on preparations for removing floppy support 
from debian-installer templates recently:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00057.html


With this "Debian Ports" argumentation, we need a discussion on this topic
first, as it seems.


@debian-boot team:
How to deal with floppy support these days?



Holger


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