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Bug#1033325: marked as done (installation-report: store and report firmware information)

Your message dated Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:49:28 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1033325: fixed in installation-report 2.87
has caused the Debian Bug report #1033325,
regarding installation-report: store and report firmware information
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Package: hw-detect
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-release@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 been loaded (both
    free and non-free), and we will also store that information on the
    target system such that users will be able to find it later. 

During the initial brainstorming, I think it was suggested to maybe
include some kind of informational message at the end of the
installation process, like “we installed this and that” or “yay,
you're entirely free”.

That would mean extra work on the translation side, wouldn't add much
value, so that looks like something we should *not* implement.


Regarding the letter of the text, and given hw-detect's code, it's
probably easy enough to keep a file around during the installation
process, with both package name and the component it was found in.

hw-detect already has some finish-install hooks, so it would only need
to generate something like /var/log/installer/firmware-packages from
it, with “$package $component” on each line?

And maybe “# no firmware packages” (with a leading # to signal a
comment), so that people can easily iterate over it if they so wish?


I don't think that's a blocker for the next d-i release, that might be
considered a blocker for Bookworm though; debian-release@ in Cc can
comment and raise severity if that's desired.

If one wanted not to work on this at all, one could make the case that
/var/log/installer/syslog can be used to determine whether/which
firmware packages were installed; the presence of non-free-firmware in
sources.list would be another indication. (That's why I don't think
that's a short-term blocker at all.) But building a 2-column table out
of existing information shouldn't be much work anyway…


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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Source: installation-report
Source-Version: 2.87
Done: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
installation-report, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1033325@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (supplier of updated installation-report package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:28:35 +0100
Source: installation-report
Architecture: source
Version: 2.87
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Closes: 1033325
Changes:
 installation-report (2.87) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Store firmware information in /var/log/installer/firmware-summary
     (Closes: #1033325):
      - Either /var/log/firmware-summary was created by the various
        hw-detect scripts, and it was copied over already; in which case,
        prettify it a little (adding a descriptive header, and aligning
        columns).
      - Or there was no need for firmware at all and there's no such file;
        in which case, create it with a single line stating that no
        firmware or microcode packages were deployed by the installer.
      - In both cases, developers wishing to process its contents can just
        drop lines starting with the '#' character and iterate on the other
        ones (if any).
   * Include firmware-summary in installation reports.
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