Intrepid seed tidying

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:16:20AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Matt Zimmerman [2008-07-13 11:25 +0100]:
> > mii-diag hasn't been updated since 2006.  We originally added it to
> > complement mii-tool (net-tools) because it was said that it worked with some
> > devices which mii-tool did not.  We also have ethtool, which from what I can
> > see, provides a superset of the relevant functionality from mii-tool and
> > mii-diag and is actively maintained upstream.  I see we have a udeb for
> > mii-diag, though I'm not sure why.  It seems justifiable to have one of
> > these tools in minimal in order to get around situations where ethernet
> > autonegotiation is failing ("get on the network and install more packages"),
> > but I think mii-tool is good enough for that case.
> > 
> > Proposal: drop mii-diag
> > Proposal: move tehtool to supported
> 
> I didn't do that yet, since it requires a MIR and might need further
> discussion.

mii-diag and ethtool are both already in minimal.  I'm suggesting moving
ethhtool to supported, and removing mii-diag.  No MIR is needed.

> Done.
> 
> I'll rebuild ubuntu-meta now to reflect the changes.
> 
> Thanks for that review!

Excellent, thank you.

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 - mdz