On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:37:41PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> (2023-09-19): >> Am 18.09.2023 22:23, schrieb Pascal Hambourg: >> > On 18/09/2023 at 19:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > > >> > > I would think so, yes. If that's not too much of a hassle, maybe >> > > wait a >> > > few days in case someone can think of a clever case where keeping them >> > > would make sense; but seeing it unsupported upstream, with the partman >> > > part removed already, I can't see why that would be the case… >> > >> > Rescue mode ? >> >> But then it still would make sense, to at least remove the >> mkreiserfsprogs-udeb >> The reiserfsprogs-udeb which contains fsck maybe could be kept. > >While it can do that as well (to some extent), the installer's primary >focus isn't to rescue systems but to install new ones; there are better >tools for that anyway. > >Since the plan for mainline is to eventually drop support for ReiserFS, >I don't think we should actively keep support for it “just in case >someone needs to rescue a system”. If some user really wants to use d-i >for that, we have a very wide range of versions available.
Agreed, let's just kill it here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich
