On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 11:52 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:04:33PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote [edited]: > > We should find a better way to identify firmware packages, allowing > > hw-detect to find the correct ones without unpacking. > > Some options: an optional control field in binary packages or, perhaps better, > a debtags facet. The script used to generate control information for firmware packages already lists each firmware blob in the package description. In fact those descriptions are almost pure apt-cache-SEO. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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