#1075967 hw-detect: Please uninstall discover after using it

Package:
src:hw-detect
Source:
src:hw-detect
Submitter:
Chris Hofstaedtler
Date:
2025-01-26 08:15:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1075967#5
Date:
2024-07-08 13:57:14 UTC
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hw-detect installs discover in the target system, to call
discover-pkginstall.

This causes discover, discover-data, libdiscover2 to be installed on all
d-i installed systems, but then it just sits there as cruft.

Please uninstall these packages after they've done their duty.

Chris
#1075967#10
Date:
2024-07-08 14:01:44 UTC
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Specifically, this is done in hw-detect.pre-pkgsel.d/20install-hwpackages.

https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/blob/master/hw-detect.pre-pkgsel.d/20install-hwpackages?ref_type=heads
#1075967#15
Date:
2025-01-26 08:10:00 UTC
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https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commit/5ea81c20
but was not closed:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1564261/accepted-hw-detect-1162-source-into-unstable/

Could someone authorized close this, and perhaps update the changelog?

Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois