Comment 1 for bug 129646

gfloppy is in the gnome-utils source. i've modified the gnome-utils package so that it inclused --enable-gfloppy=yes and uploaded a package to my ppa. i've done this by ausing apt-get source in feisty.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/schnitz/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-utils/gnome-utils_2.18.0-0ubuntu3.dsc