Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

Z> isenkram-cli OK, but it seems to work differently that what I was thinking.

Debian-wide firmware prober

Hey everybody, wouldn't it be nice if there was a prober, like lshw, that probed all the firmware one needed? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982402 It would say: " You need the following Debian firmware packages firmware-X firmware-Y firmware-Z Remember, a proper system

Bug#934413: .debs are old fashioned. e.g., Google Play makes smaller updates

Package: general Just the other day I noticed Google Play seems to make smaller updates than when installing an initial package. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572812 So maybe instead of bulky .debs, Debian could do similar. Hmmm, http://debdelta.debian.net/

Bug#901003: There is no standard way of removing transitional / dummy packages

Package: general There is no standard way of removing transitional / dummy packages. One has to grep for the words transitional / dummy in their descriptions to find them. They should all have a standard Tag:. And the Debian documentation should mention what apt command will remove them.

more files in /usr/share/doc could possibly be symlinked

Perhaps more duplicate files in /usr/share/doc could be symlinked to save space in some cases, depending on their dependencies... $ cd /usr/share/doc ls -ogi */changelog.gz|sort -k 4nr|head 25166091 -rw-r--r-- 1 2606373 07-24 01:11 krb5-locales/changelog.gz 25302407 -rw-r--r-- 1 1944189 07-31

bootlogd fills up entire disk eventually

severity 725120 critical version 725120 2.88dsf-55 forcemerge 725120 743001 forcemerge 725120 724712 thanks The logs finally got so big, never getting rotated, that they filled up the disk, rendering the ENTIRE SYSTEM unusable! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org