Bug#412637: RFA: hwinfo -- Hardware identification system
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the hwinfo package. I have neither the time nor the resources to properly test and maintain this package. The package description is: hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux. . In Debian-Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor. . hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe, isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp. . This package does not include the binaries hwscan, hwscand and hwscanqueue. If you think one or more of these should be included in the package, please contact the maintainer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-debil-2 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#412637: RFA: hwinfo -- Hardware identification system
Hello James, I like to adopt this Package if it not already taken... How dificult/easy is it to maintain? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant Am 2007-02-27 01:30:41, schrieb James Vega: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > > I request an adopter for the hwinfo package. I have neither the time > nor the resources to properly test and maintain this package. > > The package description is: > hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux. > . > In Debian-Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when > detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor. > . > hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among > others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and > partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, > pppoe, > isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp. > . > This package does not include the binaries hwscan, hwscand and hwscanqueue. > If > you think one or more of these should be included in the package, please > contact the maintainer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - END OF REPLIED MESSAGE - -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/6/6192519367100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
Bug#412637: RFA: hwinfo -- Hardware identification system
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:24:52PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello James, > > I like to adopt this Package if it not already taken... It is still up for adoption. > How dificult/easy is it to maintain? The packaging is fairly simple. The main reason I'm giving it up is simply lack of time for Debian and this is the package I maintain which interests me the least. As for the upstream code, knowledge of C and possibly some assembly (e.g., #412713 is a problem with some assembly on s390) would be needed. It would also be useful to have a variety of hardware to test hwinfo's reports. It's also worth noting that hwinfo is developed for SuSE which specifically patches their kernel to include some code which was dropped from the official Linux kernel some time ago. This is the reason for the kbd.c-tiocgdev_undefined patch in the Debian packaging. I'm not sure if there are other kernel patches SuSE uses which may cause further problems down the line. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature
