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Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc

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On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 08:15 +0300, Paul Fertser wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:04:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 09:22 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > Source: linux
> > > Version: 4.10~rc6-1~exp1
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > X-Debbugs-CC: open-ath9k-htc-firmware@packages.debian.org
> > > 
> > > Now that open-ath9k-htc-firmware has been accepted into Debian
> > > unstable, please add "Recommends: firmware-ath9k-htc" to the
> > > metadata for the linux-image-* packages in Debian experimental.
> 
> Not many linux-image-* users have ath9k-htc hardware so I do not see
> how this recommendation can make sense here.

This is also true for most of the devices supported by firmware-linux-
free, but it's small so it shouldn't hurt.

> The package should have provided appropriate AppStream metainformation
> so Debian should be able to suggest installing it when the device is
> plugged in for the first time.

Unfortunately I don't think we have all the infrastructure in place for
that yet.

> > As this firmware has gone through at least one ABI bump, I think we
> > need to plan for a future ABI bump.
> 
> So far the idea was to upload a package named firmware-ath9k-htc-1.5.0
> after the next ABI bump. There's no reason why
> firmware-ath9k-htc-1.5.0 shouldn't be able to co-exist on the same
> system with e.g. firmware-ath9k-htc-1.6.0, as the user should be able
> to choose different kernel versions on boot, and hence different
> firmware versions will be appropriate.
> 
> > Therefore:
> > - You should not name the files as simply '1.dev.0' versions, but by
> >   the implemented ABI version (as the driver expects by default).
> 
> The code that's currently packaged is definitely not 1.4.0 code, it
> got some non-trivial changes (not affecting ABI though) after the
> 1.4.0 was released. So naming an intermediate version in any way other
> than 1.dev.0 would only add to the confusion IMHO.

So install your files with the real version number and make a symlink
with the '1.4.0' name.

Ben.

> Probably it would make sense to have the minor number indicate a
> subversion of same-ABI firmwares, but for some reasons the kernel
> driver maintainers decided against that.
>
> I hope Oleksij will correct me if I'm missing something here.
> 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

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Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2017-03-30 03:30 +0200
  Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-30 23:10 +0200
    Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 07:20 +0200
      Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> - 2017-03-31 08:00 +0200
      Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-31 15:40 +0200
        Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> - 2017-03-31 19:00 +0200
          Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-31 19:30 +0200
            Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> - 2017-03-31 19:50 +0200
              Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-31 21:10 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend  firmware-ath9k-htc owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-03-30 23:10 +0200

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