Bug#276228: RFH: pcmcia-cs -- PCMCIA Card Services for Linux
Nico Golde:
> can you give me some concrete work, then i can have a look if i am able
> to do something.
See below.
Matthijs Mohlmann:
> Well i'm interested in co-maintaining the package but i'm not a debian
> developer.
Not necessary, I'm not a DD either. Somebody will have to sponsor the
uploads though, Joey Hess has been doing it for me.
> I've looked at the package and i see some improvements for the
> debian/rules file. Maybe we can go to use the debhelper programs. I'm
> using that in raidtools2 and it's working perfectly.
Yes, we should definitely use debhelper.
> There also some lintian warnings for pcmcia-cs package. That's
> something
> what i don't like ;)
As far as I remember they are not very serious. The suid-root programs
drop their privileges on startup.
> The {pre, post}install scripts needs also an improvement i think.
>
> What kind of improvements do you think about ?
I have done some improvements, including switching to debhelper, but
not uploaded them. They are now in the experimental branch of the
repository:
svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-pcmcia-cs/pcmcia-cs/branches/experimental
They need to be tested, revised and then uploaded to experimental, or
maybe sid after sarge has been released.
Other improvements that are needed:
* Update to latest upstream version
* Update the German translation (see the BTS)
* Upload binary kernel modules for the latest 2.4 kernel (see
pcmcia-modules-i386 in SVN)
* Fix bugs reported in the BTS.
* Probably remove the dmidecode stuff for now (checks for certain
problematic computers, but it's untested and might cause problems)
* Improve PCMCIA support in debian-installer (especially
Cardbus). At one time I sent an untested patch to debian-boot which
improved Cardbus handling.
* ... other things which I can't remember right now
--
Pelle
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