Bug#319583: pcmciautils packaging followup

[Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org>]

Colin Watson:
> Since we're about to switch to 2.6.15 as the default kernel in Ubuntu,
> we needed pcmciautils, so I did a very quick packaging job on it, which
> I'd like to move into Debian as long as I'm not stepping on anyone
> else's toes:
> 
>   http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pcmciautils/
> 
> (may have moved to
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pcmciautils/ by the time
> you read this)
> 
> However, I've done no real work on transitioning from pcmcia-cs; I
> simply left pcmcia-cs there and made sure that both pcmcia-cs and
> pcmciautils could be installed at the same time (which I think is a very
> good property to have anyway).

I too think that's a good thing.

> Further work on this would be useful. I'd be happy to co-maintain
> this with a team.

I'm not able to do my work properly right now so feel free to upload
pcmciautils to Debian.

> How much of pcmcia-cs do we actually need with pcmciautils? As I
> understand it, the mappings of device to driver have moved into the
> kernel. Is it just /etc/pcmcia/config.opts (pcmciautils ships its own,
> but we need to take care to make pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils coexist
> here)?

Yes, that file should be in a pcmcia-common package, possibly using
pcmciautils as the source package. Furthermore, we should make sure
that all driver mappings in /etc/pcmcia/config are present either in
the kernel mapping table or as aliases in /etc/modprobe.d.

-- 
Pelle