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Removed from Debian
Posted by e5z8652 on Thu 12 Nov 2009 at 09:06
I have an old webcam, and recently dug it out and connected it. Found the modules for it and installed them. It used to work with Etch, now it doesn't. It suffers from bug 489244.
Bug 489244 was closed because the gspca modules were "removed from Debian."
And yet:
james@independence:~$ apt-cache policy gspca-modules-2.6-amd64
gspca-modules-2.6-amd64:
Installed: 2:2.6.26-6+lenny1
Candidate: 2:2.6.26-6+lenny1
Version table:
*** 2:2.6.26-6+lenny1 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Somehow apt didn't get the word about the modules being "removed from Debian."
The bug was closed because the modules apparently come built in to the 2.6.28 kernel, but Lenny doesn't use that kernel.
I suppose it's time to move to Testing so my reality can match the bugreport reality?
Bug 489244 was closed because the gspca modules were "removed from Debian."
And yet:
james@independence:~$ apt-cache policy gspca-modules-2.6-amd64
gspca-modules-2.6-amd64:
Installed: 2:2.6.26-6+lenny1
Candidate: 2:2.6.26-6+lenny1
Version table:
*** 2:2.6.26-6+lenny1 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Somehow apt didn't get the word about the modules being "removed from Debian."
The bug was closed because the modules apparently come built in to the 2.6.28 kernel, but Lenny doesn't use that kernel.
I suppose it's time to move to Testing so my reality can match the bugreport reality?
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Somehow apt didn't get the word about the modules being "removed from Debian."Also, I've checked my Lenny CDs and guess what? the package gspca-modules-2.6 has not deleted itself! ;-)
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