Bug#1061321: firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919

From	Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1061321: firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919
Date	2024-01-23 22:30 +0100
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On Monday, 22 January 2024 15:42:48 CET Diederik de Haas wrote:
> I'm currently working on an update for upstream version 20230919, based
> upon MR86 (Release 20230804) [1], which itself is based upon MR85
> (Update to 20230625) [2] and I'm running into some major issues:

https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/-/merge_requests/87

> 3) Upstream commit a0142c57045701b7557c3060af5c4246c420e4d8 titled
>    "ath10k/WCN3990: move wlanmdsp to qcom/sdm845" would mean moving
>    entries from ``debian/config/atheros`` to ``debian/config/qcom-soc``
>    and adding a 'recommends' field to ``atheros``'s ``defines`` file.
>    Which means that qcom-soc recommends atheros and atheros recommends
>    qcom-soc. Technically doable, but it raises the question whether this
>    separation still makes sense.

Small correction: qcom-soc no longer recommends atheros as the 'wlanmdsp' file 
was the (sole) reason for the recommends, so that can be dropped.

I still think the separation is rather arbitrary and unlikely to be useful 
(going forward).

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Bug#1061321: firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919 Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-01-22 16:00 +0100
  Bug#1061321: firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919 Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-01-23 22:30 +0100
  Bug#1061321: firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919 Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-02-23 14:20 +0100
  Bug#1061321: marked as done (firmware-nonfree: Important changes  coming up with upstream version 20230919) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-06-30 22:40 +0200
    Bug#1061321: marked as done (firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-01 09:40 +0200
      Bug#1061321: marked as done (firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919) Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-01 10:10 +0200

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