El divendres, 28 d’abril de 2023, a les 15:27:35 (CEST), Heiko Becker va escriure: > On Friday, 28 April 2023 15:16:29 CEST, Nate Graham wrote: > > Does it work for *anyone* with a modern distro? If not, then I > > think archiving it makes sense. Time marches on. :) > > > > If it does work for *someone* with a modern distro then at the > > very least the UI needs to detect when it will be broken and > > tell this to the user in advance to prevent frustration. > > I think it depends on the floppy kernel module, which should provide the > device nodes Jonathan seems to be missing. AFAIK this kernel module isn't > needed for "modern" floppy drives connected via USB though, but only for > the ancient internal ones. That being said, the kernel module is orphaned. > > My personal opionion is that that's enough to stop releasing it (after > 23.04.3). I also removed it from my distro downstream in 2015 and nobody > ever even mentioned it.
3 weeks and no one disagreed. https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-tools/-/commit/7f90de6cdb8eecb423657c88cfb3b37797c6fab3 Cheers, Albert > > Regards, > Heiko > > > On 4/28/23 06:49, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > >> KFloppy is an old tool to format your floppy diskettes. We > >> packaged KFloppy for the Snap store but it doesn't work, > >> neither does it work for the apt packages. The code depends on > >> features of Linux that do not seem to exist any more, expecting > >> /dev/fd0 and other nodes in /dev. It also depends on having > >> tools like fdformat around which are not packages for Ubuntu > >> any more. I tested it with an external USB floppy drive. The > >> most recent maintainer seems to be Wolfgang Bauer. Can we > >> agree to archive it and stop releases?
