Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Gustavo Franco]
> Petter, couldn't we replace discover1 with discover (2) into the
> desktop task ?

Actually, we (Otavio an me) plan to replace discover1 with discover
for Lenny, so that every user with discover1 will upgrade
automatically to discover.

> Is this a list of supported hardware issue, something else or
> there's no issue?

There are two minor issues.  One is the lack of architecture specific
overrides for a given hardware device, and the other is lack of sbus
support.  But discover is no longer very useful for loading kernel
modules (the programs using the info in /lib/modules/ are doing a
better job), so it is not that problematic any more.

> Btw, it seems that xdebconfigurator already support discover (2) or
> discover1 but xserver-xorg recommends is on 'discover1 | discover'
> and in ltsp-client-core we depend on discover1 (not desktop task
> related though)

I asked the X team to switch to discover v2 before Etch was released,
but they decided to postpone it.  I hope they are ok with doing it
now.  I suspect ltsp can switch too.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen