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

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:28:16AM -0500, John Scott wrote:
> As discussed on the mailing list(s), I'm looking into making a udeb for
> firmware-ath9k-htc with kernel-wedge.

You missunderstood something.  All the firmware stuff is _only_ shipped
as deb, not as udeb.

> 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.

Please provide a proper patch for firmware-nonfree to replace the
currently included firmware with a dependency.

> 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.

You need to remove the problem first.  Then we can properly fix it.

Bastian

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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

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