Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

2023-01-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi all, now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward? There are some longstanding bugreports for this (and related, some in CC); is there any chance t

Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Wansing (2023-01-28): > now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily > in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring > the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward? > > There are some longstanding bugreports for this (and related, some

Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: hw-detect Severity: important Hi, # Context Quoting the text that was agreed to via the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware: We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer image

Bug#1029849: hw-detect: storing firmware information specifically

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: hw-detect Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Hi, Quoting the text that was agreed to via the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware: When the installer/live system is running we will provide information to the user about what firmware has

Re: Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 08:09:58PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Package: hw-detect > Severity: important > > Hi, > > > # Allowing for main-only > > The next sentence of the text that was agreed to is: > > The included firmware binaries will normally be enabled by default > where the

Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

2023-01-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am 28. Januar 2023 17:27:28 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois : >Holger Wansing (2023-01-28): >> now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily >> in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring >> the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward? >>

Bug#1029922: apt-setup: remove duplicate, commented-out cdrom entries

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: apt-setup Severity: normal After a regular installation from netinst, sources.list usually looks like this: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.0.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial amd64 NETINST with firmware 20230128-23:05]/ sid local main non-free non-free-firmware #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU

Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey kibi! On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 08:09:58PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Package: hw-detect >Severity: important > >Hi, > > ># Context > >Quoting the text that was agreed to via the 2022 General Resolution >about non-free firmware: > >We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non

Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2023-01-29): > >I'm proposing: > > - “hw-detect/firmware” as template for hw-detect; > > I was thinking "hw-detect/load_firmware" might be better - we may > want/need more firmware questions yet, so let's leave the namespace > open? That's exactly what someone has already thought

Processed: Bug#1029848 marked as pending in hw-detect

2023-01-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 pending Bug #1029848 [hw-detect] hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support Added tag(s) pending. -- 1029848: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029848 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 patch pending Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-29): > If we really want not to use a bare /firmware, maybe /firmware-lookup? > But having something specialized in hw-detect and something much more > generic in preseed would look strange to me. I don't really mind either > way. This seems

Processed: Re: Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 patch pending Bug #1029848 [hw-detect] hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support Added tag(s) patch. -- 1029848: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029848 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems