Bug#973364: firmware-linux-free: Maybe missing soft dependency on wireless-regdb
Package: firmware-linux-free
Version: 20200122-1
Hi,
now that "iw" dropped the dependency on "crda" (see
https://bugs.debian.org/972994), "wireless-regdb" gets uninstalled, too,
as it was only pulled in via dependency by crda, at least on some of my
machines.
But according to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/crda.git/commit/?id=f4ef2531698fb9ba006e8b31a223b3269be8bc7c
now the kernel itself seems to load wireless-regdb's
/lib/firmware/regulatory.db* files.
So I wonder if there should be a soft dependency from either
firmware-linux-free (feels like the proper place) or maybe the kernel
images itself instead, since this seems to be the kernel which will be
actually looking for that file. The latter looks like the right place
when pendanticly interpreting the Debian Policy with regards to package
relations.
P.S.: No idea about the severity, could be anything from RC due to being
(IMHO pedantic) policy violation due to missing package relation, down
to "minor" (nobody cared about that relation to the kernel since kernel
4.15, so it can't be that severe and it's clearly only needed only by
devices which use WiFi and there not even for functioning, just for
avoiding local legal issues and maybe local technical issues), therefore
leaving it at the default. Feel free to adjust and/or reassign.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
firmware-linux-free depends on no packages.
firmware-linux-free recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-linux-free suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.139
-- no debconf information
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