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Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre package firmware-ath9k-htc

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Package: firmware-nonfree
Version: 20160110-1
Severity: normal
Control: affects -1 src:open-ath9k-htc-firmware

As discussed on the mailing list(s), I'm looking into making a udeb for
firmware-ath9k-htc with kernel-wedge. Although I've not delved too much into
it yet, I anticipate that being able to install the firmware under its
canonical name will at least be helpful, and potentially necessary.

To avoid clashing with the ones provided in firmware-nonfree, I do a hack
where I ship it as e.g. /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.dev.0.fw, and
then install a modprobe option to tell the kernel module to look for it
under that name. This is certainly confusing.

Fortunately because of this crutch, it doesn't need to be fixed atomically.
The firmware can be removed from firmware-nonfree first, then I can switch
the name over, adding Breaks as necessary, at some later time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre package firmware-ath9k-htc John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2021-01-21 12:40 +0100
  Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre package firmware-ath9k-htc Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 13:50 +0100
    Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre package firmware-ath9k-htc John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2021-01-21 15:30 +0100
      Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre package firmware-ath9k-htc John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2021-01-24 00:10 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre  package firmware-ath9k-htc "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-01-24 00:10 +0100

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