Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 9/8/19 11:43 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I assume, this bugreport was motivated by bug #880122 by Chris Lamb from > > 2017, > > which proposed to remove floppy support from hw-detect package, since > > floppies appear to no longer be widely used for ages: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880122 > > > > > > The same bugreport made me working on preparations for removing floppy > > support > > from debian-installer templates recently: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00057.html > > (...) > > > With this "Debian Ports" argumentation, we need a discussion on this topic > > first, as it seems. > > The standard floppy driver in the kernel just recently got a new maintainer > [1] > and Linus underlined that the floppy driver is still useful for virtualization > environments (I can't find the LKML post at the moment). > > It's super easy to create a floppy image with just the dd tool and use it in > qemu or on servers. > > Please do not assume that all users are just on x86 laptops with no optical > drives or floppy drives. I know that a lot of people don't use optical or > floppy media anymore, but that doesn't mean there is still a use case for it. > > Like with serial connections, floppy drives are simple enough that they work > in basically every environment, so having them as a simple fallback is > incredibly useful and unless there is a very good reason for removing floppy > support - i.e. code that is broken or blocks other new code - I'm objecting > to removing floppy support and would be willing to take care of it.
Since no new arguments (pro or contra floppy support in d-i) were given, I suppose it looks like we will keep the status quo and therefore close the related bugs. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
