Bug#980746: remove ath9k_htc, provided by libre package firmware-ath9k-htc
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:28:16AM -0500, John Scott wrote:
> As discussed on the mailing list(s), I'm looking into making a udeb for
> firmware-ath9k-htc with kernel-wedge.
You missunderstood something. All the firmware stuff is _only_ shipped
as deb, not as udeb.
> To avoid clashing with the ones provided in firmware-nonfree, I do a hack
> where I ship it as e.g. /lib/firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.dev.0.fw, and
> then install a modprobe option to tell the kernel module to look for it
> under that name. This is certainly confusing.
Please provide a proper patch for firmware-nonfree to replace the
currently included firmware with a dependency.
> Fortunately because of this crutch, it doesn't need to be fixed atomically.
> The firmware can be removed from firmware-nonfree first, then I can switch
> the name over, adding Breaks as necessary, at some later time.
You need to remove the problem first. Then we can properly fix it.
Bastian
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