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Bug#66578: marked as done (Module descriptions in modconf)

Your message dated Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:02:53 +0000
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and subject line Bug#612065: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #66578,
regarding Module descriptions in modconf
to be marked as done.

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Package: modconf
Version: 0.2.26.14
Subject: No (or wrong) modules description

I wondered a lot installing potato when I discovered that many
modules are marked with "(No description available)" by modconf.
In many cases no help is given about parameters, in other totally
wrong help is given (noticeably parameters for lp.o).
This is true also for very popular modules like serial and lp,
which was better handled by modconf in Debian 2.1.

I grab the modconf source and I discovered that module
descriptions are builded automatically from:

1) The Module-HOWTO
A document "no being maintened any more", last released 30 Jul
1997, whith many errors like the parameters needed by lp.o (not
needed any more).

2) The kernel sources
I'm not very clever with Perl, so I can't overcome the lack of
comments in the script which digs the source tree. It's hard to
handle the kernel source tree, but missing CONFIG_SERIAL means
that many things will go wrong.

3) Static templates
Some files, also localized, which contain redundant and stale
descriptions (why "Intel Ether Express" should be localized?, is
"summary_psaux" needed any more?).


I must admit that I'm totally disappointed.

A few days before release it is normal to find some glitches in
the software, and the help of many people is needed.
But if I want to help what I have to do? Mantain the Howto? Fix
the perl script? Write redundant templates? All of this are - at
least for me - too hard to be done in a few days.

Or, may be, releasing an operating system where it's hard to
figure out how to use the serial or parallel port is critical
only to my eyes...

Let me know how and if I can help...

Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy

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Version: 0.3.11+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package modconf has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/612065

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Luca Falavigna (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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