Bug#900171: firmware-free: Recommend or Suggest firmware-ath9k-htc

From	John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#900171: firmware-free: Recommend or Suggest firmware-ath9k-htc
Date	2018-05-27 05:50 +0200
Message-ID	<vTUQV-3BL-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Source: firmware-free
Version: 3.4
Severity: wishlist

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firmware-ath9k-htc provides free firmware for ar9271 and
ar7010 Wi-Fi chipsets and is necessary for the hardware to
work with free software. Unlike firmware-free (#890601),
the firmware-ath9k-htc package is unique in that the
firmware is built from source with the package, which is
neat.

IMHO, moving the firmware into firmware-linux-free is
unnecessary and a bit of a step backwards, but it should be
included by default just as other free firmware is with Debian.
That is why I suggest changing firmware-linux-free to recommend
firmware-ath9k-htc.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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Bug#900171: firmware-free: Recommend or Suggest firmware-ath9k-htc John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> - 2018-05-27 05:50 +0200
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