[Soc-coordination] Proposal: Automatic selection of hardware specific packages

[Obey Arthur Liu]

Hi,

If you actually want a student to look at your proposal, please put it
on the wiki :)
http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc

Cheers

Arthur

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
>
> [Julian Andres Klode]
>> Ubuntu developed a tool called 'jockey' for installing hardware
>> drivers. There is an ITP for it in Bug #436722. Jockey is in my
>> opinion the best place to do something like this. I CCed Martin
>> Pitt, the developer of jockey (and quoted the remaining parts of the
>> email in case he did not read the original one).
>
> Yes, it was a nice tool.  I tested it for the first time a few weeks
> ago.
>
> I noticed in #436722 that Martin Pitt was positive to shared
> maintenance.  What is holding you from uploading the package to
> Debian?  The ITP haven't seen any progress for a long time. :)
>
> Note that I GUI tool would be nice for the non-free stuff, but would
> be a bad idea for other hardware specific packages like RAID
> administration tools.  For this, I would like to integrate something
> like discover-pkginstall into the hwsetup package in debian-installer,
> to make sure hardware specific packages are automatically installed
> when it make sense.
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen
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