On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 08:27 +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:39:23PM +0200: > > On Fri, 2022-06-10 at 09:39 +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote: > > > the udeb regdb is also slightly obsolete, I'm not sure why it was needed > > > in the first place but it might be possible to use the normal package > > > instead? > > > > Why do you think it's obsolete? It is useful to have this file present > > in the installer. > > Sorry this wasn't clear. I didn't mean obsolete as no longer useful, > just that it is old: wireless-regdb-udeb hasn't been updated in two > years, while the main wireless-regdb package keeps getting updates > regularly.
You are comparing wireless-regdb-udeb in stable with wireless-regdb in unstable. Both the regular and udeb packages are outdated in stable, but this should be fixed in the next point release. [...] > Note that for clients (installer usecase), it _also_ doesn't matter: if > an AP uses regulated bands, the client will (should?) rightfully use > these. Yes, I think this is generally what happens. But the kernel wants to load regulatory.db regardless of what mode is being used, so it seemed like a good idea to include it in the installer. This bug shows that that didn't have an entirely positive effect, but it will be fixed. [...] > Yeah, it probably makes more sense to just remove whatever was there in > the post-install script. > I'll leave the resolution to you unless you want/need help with > something. That is what I've now implemented. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
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