Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): > Package: tasksel > Version: 3.14 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > 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 been superseded by e.g. ExpressCard for over 10 years.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.
That seems fair, though I think it's a bit late for this to happen wrt the release. I was about to do the removal when partly cleaning out tasks at DebConf 11, then finally I remained conservative. We still have questions about enabling PCMCIA in the installer, by the way (fortunately at low priority level).
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
