Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc
Hi Ben,
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:06:06PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 19:40 +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > Am 31.03.2017 um 19:17 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > > On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 18:52 +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > > [..]
> > > > I don't think it makes any sense. Why should we symlink some thing
> > > > different/not_stable to file name of stable firmware?
> > > > Especially if we have 1.dev.0?
> > > > firmware-ath9k-htc package should and can provide any latest possible
> > > > version of firmware form git. All possible distribution patches are
> > > > welcome as well.
> > > > firmware-ath9k-htc-v1.5 should provide stable version without any
> > > > chanes. This is needed to make sure suers are able to fall back to
> > > > working version of firmware even if firmware-ath9k-htc will brake
> > > > connection.
> > >
> > > If this package is not going to provide a stable ABI then I'll consider
> > > adding a Breaks instead.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean.
>
> Firmware filenames are supposed to indicate ABI versions. Just like
> shared library sonames. Just like kernel module directory names.
>
> You've told me that you're not going to do this. So it sounds like the
> kernel will need to have something like 'Breaks: firmware-ath9k-htc (>=
> 1.5~)'.
Can we close this old bug (i.e. by now doing nothing)?
Regards,
Salvatore
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