Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?
Hello,
вс, 2 окт. 2022 г. в 22:36, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>:
>
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 03:53:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > >What's the plan for upgraded systems with an existing /etc/apt/sources.list.
> > >Will the new n-f-f section added on upgrades automatically(if non-free was
> > >enabled before)?
>
> > So this is the one bit that I don't think we currently have a good
> > answer for. We've never had a specific script to run on upgrades (like
> > Ubuntu do), so this kind of potentially breaking change doesn't really
> > have an obvious place to be fixed.
>
> > Obviously we'll need to mention this in the release notes for
> > bookworm. Should we maybe talk about adding an upgrade helper tool?
>
> I heartily endorse ubuntu-release-upgrader, it has been useful in addressing
> uncounted upgrade issues over the years and I think something like this
> would be a nice addition to Debian as well. Two caveats:
I'd kindly ask against additional upgrade scripts. It is too easy to
miss them, especially if one has been using Debian for ages with bare
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.
Moreover such a script will not help people that are already using testing.
For the past few decades, updating the setup was always a job of the
package scripts. Thus we potentially can have an addon in the apt's
postinstall script that will check if the user is running bookworm,
the non-free repo is enabled and non-free-firmware is not. In such
case postinst can present user with a choice of ignoring n-f-f,
attempting automatic '/bookworm/s/non-free/non-free
non-free-firmware/' or letting user to fix setup. This way the user
will be present with such choice whichever path he uses to update to
bookworm.
--
With best wishes
Dmitry
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