Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

>It should be documented: yes. >But what's your problem? It is the same situation as for so much other >hardware like WLAN, etc. And the sound card is not even essential for booting >or downloading additional software. >And no need to write a driver: it is still there. I think you didn't get the m

Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

can't live with some ten years old binary-only drivers in kernel (I doubt anyone is interested in writing open source replacement!), the least you can do is document this well in release notes and package those drivers in non-free/unofficial. -- Joona Kiiski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

Hi! I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on debootstrap (priority extra) This is against debian policy (section 2.5), so I reported bug #477634 with severity serious. However, soon the severity was lowered to minor by maintainer with a comment: "priority optional and priorit