Hi Colin,
Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:33:53AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> PCMCIA is so uncommon nowadays that installing pcmciautils on every laptop
> by default is imho no longer warranted. I would thus like to see it removed
> from task-laptop, similar to apmd.
> PCMCIA has been a technology which was relevant in the 1990s and has
> been superseded by e.g. ExpressCard for over 10 years.
>
> I've CCed Colin, the pcmciautils maintainer, for his input.
pcmciautils is a slightly misleading name, as it does some CardBus
handling as well. However, it's true that udev improvements mean that
it's no longer actually needed to get anything other than 16-bit PCMCIA
cards up and running; so I think this proposed tasksel change is OK.
If pcmciautils can actually be useful in any way for CardBus in wheezy,
the misleading name is a secondary problem considering that while the
short description, the extended description and the manual pages mention
PCMCIA, none say anything about CardBus. I do not see any clue from the
package that it could help CardBus.
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