Control: retitle -1 RFS: carl9170fw [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw": * Package name : carl9170fw Version : 1.9.9-450-gad1c721-1 Upstream contact : linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org * URL : https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170.fw * License : many, but mostly GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-2.0-only * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/carl9170fw Section : kernel The source builds the following binary packages: firmware-carl9170 - firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/carl9170fw/ Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/carl9170fw/carl9170fw_1.9.9-450-gad1c721-1.dsc This is a package that's very dear to my heart and which has gone through a couple rounds of review already, so I hope to make it great. carl9170 is a fully libre driver and firmware combo for particular USB wireless adapters. carl9170 is already in firmware-linux-free, but this new source package is special: it builds the firmware from source using a cross toolchain that I've also packaged. Because this is firmware that runs on the CPU inside the Wi-Fi adapter instead of on the Debian host, it's an Arch: all package despite being written in C. Because of the situation with this package shipping a file that's already in firmware-linux-free, this initial upload will be practically unusable: the only goal is to clear NEW so that the second upload (which will have appropriate Breaks+Replaces) can be made on a predictable timeframe. (I have, however, manually tested that the built firmware works.) I wonder, should I add a temporary Conflicts: firmware-linux-free to this initial upload since they will not be co-installable? I've decided not to, but let me know if I should. I'm not very good with Git, so this upload is not in the VCS right now. I'll sort that out once we're uploading the package to NEW. Also, per discussion on #debian-mentors and a recent re-reading of Debian Policy, I've added Built-Using fields because carl9170 is GPL and statically links in other libraries. P.S. If any of my seemingly-omniscient regular sponsors are concerned, I'm about to fix the FTBFS in the sibling package ath9k_htc, so do not be alarmed by that.
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