Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

2019-11-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/4/19 12:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:27:07PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> And I just saw the "argument". The argument was "It's 2018". That's not >> an argument. > > the longer form of the argument is: it's 2018 and except for 100 people > on this p

Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

2019-11-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:27:07PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > And I just saw the "argument". The argument was "It's 2018". That's not > an argument. the longer form of the argument is: it's 2018 and except for 100 people on this planet, noone is using floppies anymore. "cognitive

Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

2019-11-03 Thread Holger Wansing
Control: severity -1 wishlist John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/3/19 11:19 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > >> 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. > > > >

Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

2019-11-03 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 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

Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

2019-11-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/3/19 11:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I disagree. It's a really weak argument. Are you really saying that people > are getting frustrated because they are reading the word "floppy"? That > doesn't make any sense at all. And I just saw the "argument". The argument was "It's 2018".

Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

2019-11-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/3/19 11:19 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: >> 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. > > To get this to an end, I will: > > - simplify related templates, to remove th

Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i [Was: Re: Bug#939798: kickseed: remove floppy support]

2019-10-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Oct 18, 2019, at 10:03 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > 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. Thank you! Adrian

Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i [Was: Re: Bug#939798: kickseed: remove floppy support]

2019-10-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 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 ag

Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i [Was: Re: Bug#939798: kickseed: remove floppy support]

2019-09-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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=88

Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i [Was: Re: Bug#939798: kickseed: remove floppy support]

2019-09-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/8/19 10:53 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > Package: kickseed > > tags: patch > > > > in attachment, patch to remove floppy support from the kickseed package. > > Why does floppy support need to be removed? It might be usable for any of > the a