Hello, On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:02:19PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > When checking the list of bugs filed against discover in BTS, I start > to wonder if it is wise to base the d-i HW detection on a package that > seem to lack active maintainers. Some of the bugs are more than a > year old. Several bugs have been fixed in NMU without being included > in a new maintainer release. true. very bad situation. Specially most of the newer hardware isn't detected (see also discover-data here).
> Is it only me being concerned about the state of discover? Is there
> anything more I can do to help?
Coudn't we use the RedHat discovering tool? I thing it's better under
development and support more hardware (RedHat needs to extend the
supported haradware everytime)
> I've tried to submit patches into BTS, but the motivation wears off
> when no new version with the patches included are uploaded. I've done
> some maintainer-approved NMUs, but would really like these fixed to be
> included in the maintained version, and perhaps pushed upstream.
Well, I have the same problem here. My bugreport is also stalled
(nothing heard about it)
Bye
Thorsten
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