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Re: Bug#839724: use isenkram instead of debian-edu-hwsetup



On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:18:00PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> control: tags -1 +pending
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 03:54:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > > > … and I believe isenkram is now also called automatically by d-i.
> > > Not yet, as far as I know.
> > > 
> > > Isenkram provide two functions, one is to locate and install firmware
> > > packages and the other is to install hardware specific non-firmware
> > > packages.  I believe I saw some work adding similar firmware related
> > > code to d-i, but am not sure it is working yet.  For the non-firmware
> > > packages, I am not aware of any alternative to isenkram.
> > > 
> > > I suspect a good way forward for Debian Edu is to drop
> > > debian-edu-hwsetup and call isenkram directly instead.  Perhaps by just
> > > installing isenkram-cli and let its tasksel hooks do its magic.  Not
> > > sure if this will loose some functionallity, or if all the potential
> > > workarounds are obsolete now.  I do not remember how details about what
> > > d-e-hwsetup is doing any more.
> > 
> > ok, let's do this now then. Filing a bug to track this task.
> 
> since debian-edu-config 1.912 we stopped using debian-edu-hwsetup and
> instead just depend on isenkram-cli and this change is also in stretch
> so… this bug can be closed, or?

I suppose so. Further, isenkam (contains desktop popup if new hardware 
is found) should be added as Depends for standalone and roaming-ws.

Petter: any comments on this?

Wolfgang

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