Hi The purpose of this mail is to inform discover-workers of the plans the debian-installer team has for discover2 and to give you the possibility to object to out plans.
Current state of discover2 in Debian: I have packaged an udeb only version of discover2 which is in the archive now. This package has successfully built on all autobuilders except mips, mipsel and m68k. It is intended for testing discover2 with the new installer. Further plans: I discussed the future of the discover2 package with pere yesterday. We plan to upload a full version of discover2 (including deb packages). It is not our intent to hijack your package. However, considering that there was no packaging effort done in the last months, we are under the impression, that you are no longer interested in maintaining this package. So we would like to completely takeover the maintenance of discover2. If our impression is wrong and you are still interested in maintaining discover2 then please speak up now and provide finished packages in the near future. If we take over the maintenance of discover2 we plan to do the following (IRC excerpt): 17:25 < pere> Currently, we have two packages: discover (building discover and discover-udeb), and discover2 (building discover2-udeb). If we change this to discover1 (building discover1 and discover-udeb), and discover (building discover and discover2-udeb). 17:26 < pere> then we can test discover (version 2) in Sid, while still using discover-udeb (version 1) in d-i. 17:29 < pere> Besides, the discover version 2 package is slightly tested already, and seem to return correct info. With this plan we can get wider testing for discover2 in sid and still have discover1 packages as a fall back option and for sarge if it will be released before discover2 is ready. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]